I have recently found a fairly common problem with stiles and pedestrian gates where footpaths join roads.
Often a stile, or gate tagged for access on foot only, is used at the junction with a road. Routers then assume the road is for foot only and route around. I am not finding any users are making this error a lot, but a lot of users who have mapped a few paths have made this error. So not something that can be fixed by a few emails. I guess it is in a similar vain to the common error of ending a footpath at the hedge and not joining it with the roads way. The scale of the problem is shown here, some are stiles which continue from dead end roads, but most cause OSRM to avoid the node http://www.overpass-api.de/api/convert?data=way%2849.2%2C-7.6%2C59.2% 2C3.5%29[highway%3D%22unclassified%22]%3B%28node%28w%29[barrier%3D% 22stile%22]%3B%29%3Bout&target=openlayers It will take a minute or so to load. It mostly affects unclassified and tertiary roads, which is probably why it is not being reported through map dust. But I have already fixed a few on primary and trunk roads. My solution has been to move the stile node away from the road slightly and create a short section of path to link back to the road. I am gradually working through the problem and will carry on until it is fixed, but am wondering. Is there a list of pitfalls for new user that this can be added to? Is it something that can be added to keep-rights list of problems? Thanks Phil _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
