Martijn van Exel <[email protected]> writes: > It's the other way around, really. We're adjusting our routing logic > to adapt to OSM. Referring to the wiki, a service road is 'Generally > for access to a building, motorway service station, beach, campsite, > industrial estate, business park, etc.' - so by that definition, a > service road would typically only occur at the beginning or the end of > the route, and that's what we tell our routing engine to do. If it > were to turn out that this definition of what a service road is, is in > fact not how it is generally used in mapping, then we'd need to > revisit the wiki (and our routing rules) - but from what I have seen > in my pretty extensive mapping experience in the U.S., the definition > generally holds. So it makes sense to me to suggest a different > tagging for these ferry access routes, not only (and not even > primarily) to satisfy our or any third party logic using the data, but > to bring more consistency to OSM in general.
That's fair enough. I got the wrong impression earlier (perhaps my misreading) that this was about a particular routing engine rather than the documented semantics. So perhaps highway=ferry_link, or perhaps the roads should just be highway=unclassified.
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