Probably, but in this conversation's defense, Washington State has the world's largest ferry fleet by far, so it's much more a Washingtonism than anything.
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Evin Fairchild <evindf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Shouldn’t we be discussing this on the tagging mailing list rather than > the talk-us mailing list? After all, ferries are all around the world, so > we should discuss this at the tagging mailing list rather than here if we > want to introduce a new highway=ferry_link tag. > > > > -Compdude > > > > *From:* Ivan Komarov [mailto:jkoma...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, November 8, 2013 9:16 AM > *To:* Paul Johnson > *Cc:* talk-us > *Subject:* Re: [Talk-us] Ferries > > > > I'd vote for introducing a new tag, that is highway=ferry_link, rather > than trying to use an existing one that does not describe the object > correctly. There used to be and there will be disputes on this topic unless > we have it fixed. Introducing a new tagging scheme will cause some issues > for a while, but on the long run it would work better, I believe. > > On 8 Nov 2013 07:04, "Paul Johnson" <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > > I think highway=unclassified works, particularly if it's the fire lane > used for exiting the ferry that's always kept free of the ferry queue; not > sure how I'd tag the queue lot. > > > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote: > > > Martijn van Exel <marti...@telenav.com> 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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