On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Alex Mauer <ha...@hawkesnest.net> wrote: > On 01/12/2011 11:39 AM, Anthony wrote: >> >> Which I suppose is one of my main questions. If a way is tagged with >> highway=road, and nothing else, should a router route motor vehicle >> traffic down it? I would think the answer is yes, which means that >> paths which are not meant for motor vehicle traffic shouldn't be >> tagged with highway=road. > > Well, nothing should end up tagged as highway=road, it’s an interim tag > only. It means exactly “we don’t know what this is, except it looks like a > road from the aerial photos”: It could be private or pedestrian-only, there > could be a gate or one-way spike strips, or bollards (rising or otherwise), > or any number of other things which make it unsuitable for routing.
Ah. I see. I thought it was for roads of unknown classification. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
