On 07/09/2014 12:50 PM, Elliott Plack wrote:
OSM US:
I've been using some routing engines to map fitness routes (e.g. Strava)
that use OSM data. Along our US coasts, there are beaches. The beaches I'm
familiar with are popular with walkers and joggers to go up and down the
shore, since access is
It's just my opinion (fwiw) but it does seem to align with similar
ones expressed by others in this thread: creating a specific path to
cross an area seems superfluous. Logic as to whether "you" (and/or
your vehicle) can cross a beach properly belongs in a router,
especially as whether you ar
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Elliott Plack wrote:
> OSM US:
>
> I've been using some routing engines to map fitness routes (e.g. Strava)
> that use OSM data. Along our US coasts, there are beaches. The beaches I'm
> familiar with are popular with walkers and joggers to go up and down the
> sho
It seems like using the access tags solves the second issue. The first one
I'm less sure about, and it will vary greatly depending on the user and the
vehicle—one person's sandy day from hell is another's fun day on the beach.
And, if my assumption that the whole beach is open to travel by whatever
I thought about this, but not all beaches are navigable. Some really are
pretty treacherous, and I don’t think this is always easy to tell from aerial
imagery. I have also been to perfectly navigable beaches where you are
specifically not allowed to use vehicles because turtles build their nes
Isn't this all a little bit like mapping for the renderer? (Mapping for
the router?) If paths don't exist, should they really be created?
If people feel that they should be created, maybe there is a need for a new
tag for 'highway connectors', kind of like the flow connectors used in the
NHD stre
On 07/09/2014 12:50 PM, Elliott Plack wrote:
OSM US:
I've been using some routing engines to map fitness routes (e.g. Strava)
that use OSM data. Along our US coasts, there are beaches. The beaches I'm
familiar with are popular with walkers and joggers to go up and down the
shore, since access is
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