This had me straight off to look at the channel tunnel, which is tagged as a railway. Fair enough but no router is going to send cars that way. Should I add highway=service to the same way and connect it to the road network, or add a separate way or find another way to convey that the trains carry cars? I'd welcome your suggestions.
Thanks Oliver On 8/31/08, Mark Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rory McCann wrote: > > Dan Karran wrote: > >> 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. > >> > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Dan > >> > > > > I've been taking this approach aswell, eg: > > > http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=-4.07891&lon=39.66457&zoom=15&layers=B00FTF > > I've added nodes where the coastline and the road meet and tagging them > > with "amenity=ferry_terminal" > > > > Rory > > Similarly, I put the terminal where it is, and join the route=ferry to > the highway=service through the carpark (if that's how it is) & then to > the main roads in the usual fashion, on the basis that that's what's > there. Obviously foot ferries need a footway instead, and train stations > have a similar arrangement (or ought to..) > > Mark > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFIuv0dJfMmcSPNh94RAq9RAJ41iNnCWy1x1A/1vabXyoYvHJkhFQCePmAr > aMl4fbXi/f8URWcjIeLHaSA= > =nXgD > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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