Richard Fairhurst wrote: >Sent: 08 September 2008 6:30 AM >To: Shaun McDonald >Cc: Talk Openstreetmap >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service > >Shaun McDonald wrote: > >> To confuse you even further depending on where you are on the A1, >> depends on whether you can cycle there. For example between where it >> meets the A720, and Dunbar you are not allowed to cycle on it, however >> you are allowed to cycle on the rest of it between Edinburgh city >> centre and Berwick-upon-Tweed. >> >> Therefore for trunk roads, you cannot tell whether you can cycle there >> or not. > >TBH Shaun I think I'd say it's more like 95:5 than 80:20 - Edinburgh >just happens to have two of the six or seven examples. ;) >
Around the west midlands I can't actually think or a trunk road that you can't cycle on. It was the first thing I noticed when trying it out. Logically you have a set of buttons that let you select what you want to be routed over. That way you can route over footpaths for cycling if you so desire. Cheers Andy >The A1 case is (like the A55) a very rare example of an A road being >built under a "special roads order" which basically means it's a >motorway in all but name. The A720 is (like the A465) a specific >localised case of signing. > >cheers >Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
