If we have consensus on what the US thinks is appropriate, then I agree that it belongs on the tag list.
Does anyone have objection to bringing a proposal to create a highway=ferry_link tag? I'd especially like to hear from people working with routing (that's you Telenav) Is ferry_link the appropriate tag? The ferries I ride all have a queue area. Do we tag the queues like parking lots with a way through the queue? On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > -- Clifford OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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