----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'David Groom'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:10 AM Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] ferry route speed
> 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. > Ok . I've added a comment to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Talk:Tag:route%3Dferry if anyone cares to comment more on this. David > Cheers > > Andy > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
