David Groom wrote: >Sent: 01 September 2008 11:59 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] ferry route speed > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Gervase Markham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 9:34 PM >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] ferry route speed > > >> >> David Groom wrote: >>> When tagging ferry routes is anyone tagging ferry speed, and if so do >>> you >>> simply add maxspeed = ?? to thr route? >> >> maxspeed is for speed limits. Unless the coastguard has imposed one, >> please don't use that tag :-) If it's a particular single route, why not >> "time" or "duration"? > >I have no particular views either way, just that as maxspeed was already in >use I thought that routing applications would understand it, whereas >another >tag such as "time" or duration" would mean routing applications having to >adapt to this. > >Having said that its much easier to know the time a ferry crossing takes >rather than work out the speed of the crossing
Yes, best not to try to be too smart. If the ferry has a scheduled departure and arrival time the crossing_duration= should be good enough. The speed can be worked out by computation in the routing app. Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
