On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 at 03:45, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > > Putting the centerline of the rails somewhere other than the middle of the > tracks is arguably worse, particularly for use cases that depend on this > (creating a train simulator, or pedestrian navigation, for example).
As far as pedestrian navigation is concerned, it depends on whether sidewalks are mapped as separate ways or as tags on the road. In the latter case, a pedestrian router doesn't know that there are tram tracks on the road, but that there are tram tracks *next to* (outside) the road. Consider the following crossing and imagine that the northern sidewalk of Schlossstrasse wasn't mapped as a separate way, but as sidewalk=* on the road way: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/721154448 When turning from the northern sidewalk of Schlossstrasse into Mutacherstrasse, a pedestrian router would assume that one has to cross tram tracks (which obviously isn't the case). Even for vehicles driving on westwards on Schlossstrasse and turning into Mutacherstrasse a router would assume that the vehicle has to cross tram tracks (although in reality the tram tracks are located in the middle of the road and the traffic lane further away). Regards Markus _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
