> Hi, > > [email protected] wrote: > > when using OSM for a pedestrian navigation for blind persons, the > following problem appears: > > * There are unnamed foodways (in the woods). > > Most inner-city footways aren't named either, or are they?
Yes, but they often connect named roads. In the woods we have hole networks of unnamed tracks. > > I would like to add loc_name-tags for this and name ways like "footway > from village A to B, west of footway crossing in MyWoodName" > > Is this not a task for the routing engine? The routing engine obviously > knows that it has selected this footway as the connection between > village A and B, and where other objects are in relation to it. (There's > endless potential for confusion if the routing engine chooses a way as a > connection from A to B but the loc_name is "footway from A to C".) > > Also, psychologically, it is better to use reference points ahead than > behind - if you are going from crossing A to B then it is better to say > "you are 1km south of B" than to say "you are 1km north of A". This > means that what you would like to tag as "loc_name" should really be > created dynamically. Dynamically created names for tracks end in duplicates. This is exactly NOT what the blind users need, when they need a taxi or ambulance... Also creating way names automatically would force me to name all crossings with loc_names - this just moves the problems from ways to crossings, I guess. Cheers Lulu-Ann -- GRATIS: Spider-Man 1-3 sowie 300 weitere Videos! Jetzt freischalten! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
