On Wednesday, 15 January 2020, Colin Smale wrote: > On 2020-01-15 13:52, Lionel Giard wrote: > > > Yes this is something you can do with any distance algorithm in available > > in any GIS tool. That's not something that i would ever map as it would > > vary with any geometry change of the ways between the road the point you > > measure, added to the fact that it add nothing to explicitly map it (in my > > opinion at least). It is essentially what any routing app will calculate > > when you ask "find the nearest POI" for example. > > Surely the question is not about straight-line geometric distance/time > but about route distance along paths etc. in pedestrian mode. "Nearest" > is not nearest in terms of geometric distance, but the POI with the > shortest route. It is, but surely in calculating that distance it is easier and better to simply map the paths?
Phil (trigpoint) > > > Le mer. 15 janv. 2020 à 12:45, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@tutanota.com> > > a écrit : > > > >> I propose describing distance_from_road tag, defined as > >> "distance in meters from nearest road" as a misguided idea that should not > >> be used. > >> > >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:distance_from_road was recently > >> created by PangoSE and claims > >> "Useful for indicating the distance to nearest road accessible by a > >> normal car for people who cannot walk very long because of illness or > >> pregnancy but anyway want to get out in nature. " > >> > >> "I'm quite sure there is a clever GIS way of calculating this using a > >> routing engine, > >> unfortunately no tool or website has yet been created to easily visualize > >> this yet. > >> When this is available we could probably get rid of this tag or generate > >> its values by bot." > >> > >> I am 100% sure that such tags are not welcomed and especially bot idea is > >> really > >> poor, but I want to ask other for confirmation. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Tagging mailing list > >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org > >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tagging mailing list > > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/taggin -- Sent from my Sailfish device _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
