On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 09:46:00 AM Peter Dobratz wrote: > I'm experimenting with the Java code from Traveling Salesman > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Traveling_salesman > > I'm making library calls to the routing code and it seems that the > router does not understand cul-de-sacs mapped as a single > self-intersecting way. This got me thinking about different ways to > possibly map cul-de-sacs. I generally use Way with > highway=residential or highway=unclassified. At the end of the road > there is a loop that intersects the same Way. Here is one that I > recently mapped: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/158307363 > > Is this how people generally map these things? > > One other possibility that I could think of was splitting the circular > part at the end and tagging it junction=roundabout. However, this > would imply that the road is one-way, and I'm not sure that that is > the case. Typically there is no one way sign on the ground and people > feel free to travel in either direction on these (though being a > cul-de-sac they don't have a lot of traffic). > > --Peter > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
If it really is just a cul-de-sac, I (and many others) tag them as highway=turning_circle. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
