On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 3:51 PM SelfishSeahorse <selfishseaho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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). > Moot point, sidewalks should be mapped as separate ways for the same reason.
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