----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Karran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "osm" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 3:29 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] Connecting ferry routes to roads?
> > I fixed up the Isle of Man Steam Packet ferry route so that it goes > all the way into Douglas harbour in the Isle of Man again. While I was > at it, I connected it up with the road network so that routing > programmes could route traffic through it as well. Is this common > practice, and is there a standard way of linking them in? I've just > linked the route to a service road which is connected to the rest of > the road network. That seems to make sense and is how I have been mapping vehicle ferry routes. However I'm not quite sure what to do with ferry routes which are for foot passengers and available for cyclists, but not for motorcars.. Following the logic above I would connect the ferry route to the nearest highway with a footway tag. Although this would allow routing for cyclists and pedestrians this seems "wrong" to me. For instnace the high speed poassenger service from Southamption to East Cowes http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.89469&lon=-1.40605&zoom=17&layers=B00FTF I have not conncted to the highway down the pier, as it would produce short stubs of footway rendered on the maps which really are just corridors through buildings, but this means at the moment the ferry route is unconnected to anything. David > > Cheers, > Dan > > -- > Dan Karran > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.dankarran.com > > ___ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
