David Murn <davey <at> incanberra.com.au> writes: >>Not all park land is walkable - some can be trees or bushes - so some extra >>tagging is needed. > >Another problem, is that you may not be able to traverse the park in all >directions. It may have a fence with only a couple of access gates, or >you may find that some access gates are suitable for wheeled vehicles >where other gates may have steps or other obstacles, so you may find >yourself being routed to a corner of the park which you cant easily get >out of.
Yes, and at present there is an implicit understanding that only the explicitly mapped paths are routable - at least where I live. In London the city parks have entrance footways added from the street, and where there is no entrance that usually means there isn't a gate to go in, so by omission there must be a fence or wall. But it would be better to map the fence or wall explicitly. If the routing engines start to route across grass and park land then it might prompt mappers to add the missing features. >You may also find timed access restrictions apply. Yes, but those can be handled using the usual tags, just as there may be timed access restrictions for a highway or gate. -- Ed Avis <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
