Are you able to send a permalink showing the footpath so we can look at the tagging. If it is tagged highway=footway and there is not a car permission tag then I would say routing a car along it is a bug in the yournavigation website rather than anything you’ve done. The additional foot=yes I don’t believe is necessary, though I think one of the popular editors (can’t remember whether it was Potlatch or JOSM as I switch between them depending what I’m mapping) adds it as a default when you select footway.
With regards roundabouts, I take it from your post you are in the UK. When mapping larger roundabouts (tagged junction=roundabout) the direction it is drawn indicates the one-way direction of the junction. The direction is as indicated by the arrows in JOSM or the little roundabout symbol bottom left in Potlatch. In the case of mini-roundabouts (where a node is tagged as highway=mini_roundabout, if I remember correctly) these need the tag direction=clockwise adding in the UK, as the default is anti-clockwise. If you look at the Osmarender layer at www.openstreetmap.org then when you have zoomed in far enough you can tell the direction of the roundabouts by how they are rendered. Picking a random example somewhere in the UK, the two here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.06324 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.06324&lon=-2.7183&zoom=16&laye rs=0B00FTF> &lon=-2.7183&zoom=16&layers=0B00FTF are both correctly tagged with the direction tag. I hope this helps Ed From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Hawkins Sent: 13 January 2009 09:54 To: [email protected] Subject: [OSM-newbies] Routing issue I am concerned that a route from my home by car in http://www.yournavigation.org/ takes me across a local footpath that I added in JOSM with the tags foot = yes and highway = footway (I think I put in the additional foot = yes because, being new to OSM mapping then, other paths already in the area were so designated.). If this is incorrect or insufficient to avoid a route by car using such links, I must change all I have done to date, which is quite considerable in my local area. I should appreciate some advice. I notice, too, that in obtaining a route over a longer distance, it sometimes appears to go around roundabouts to the right instead of left, with turn instructions accordingly incorrect. Clearly, routing highlights many issues which we who enter data into OpenStreetMap might not be aware of. Is there specific advice written anywhere?
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