On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 11:15 +0100, Craig Wallace wrote: > On 07/09/2012 21:03, Philip Barnes wrote: > > A while ago I had a burst of ferry and Channel Tunnel routing, I had > > successfully got routing through the Channel Tunnel working, although > > some tracing needed to be done with the French Terminal, however it > > worked in OSRM. > > > > I had tagged the lines through the tunnel as route=ferry, however these > > tags have now been deleted in changeset > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/12858462 with the comment > > "Channel Tunnel is not a ferry". The result being routing through the > > tunnel no longer works. > > > > I accept the tunnel isn't a ferry, but I would have considered it a rail > > ferry. Before I start an edit war, is there a better way to tag a rail > > ferry, that works with routing, than the way I did it? > > > > Have not yet contacted the mapper. > > I assume you are referring to the Eurotunnel "Le Shuttle" motorail > service? And not any of the other train services which operate through > the tunnel (eg Eurostar). > And I assume you are referring to routing by car (which seems to be all > that OSRM does). > > I'd agree that Le Shuttle is not a ferry, so should not be tagged as > route=ferry. It is a train route, so should be tagged as route=train. > Preferably with a route relation, not tagging all of the individual > ways, as there is a variety of different train routes through the > tunnel. Note there is already a route relation for Eurostar. > > In terms of routing by car, you also need some way of specifying that it > is a motorail service. I don't know if there is any standard tagging for > this, or if any other similar services are mapped (I know there aren't > any others left in the UK)? > The obvious tagging would be something like route=train, > motor_vehicle=yes, bicycle=yes, foot=no etc. Or maybe a specific > "motorail" tag would be useful? > Though this is probably not supported by an routing software (yet). > > Craig > Have found this page, which appears to be the answer, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/shuttle_train
route=train_shuttle appears to be the answer until routers understand relations. It certainly works for the Niebüll-Westerland example listed http://map.project-osrm.org/1iS I could not find any in Switzerland that are mapped to link the roads to the rails. Phil _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
