On Jul 18, 2014, at 1:57 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all, > > I am not sure if this list is monitored by the maintainers of routing > engines that use OSM? I wanted to draw attention to > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing. This page > seemed to have very little bearing on what is actually used. It came > up recently on either IRC or another mailing list, and Richard > Fairhurst added the warning that is now heading section 1.2 of the > page. > > I just edited this page some more to add the 1.1 section on 'actual > usage'. For now it contains a section on Telenav with a link to a > child page I just created with some information on tag usage for the > Scout apps. My hope is that this page, or some template we can agree > on, will be used by other routing engine owners to supply a similar > set of information. I realize that many engines allow the end user to > tweak how routing results are calculated, but there should be some > minimal set of information on tag usage based on defaults? > > The OSM tags for routing page could use much more cleanup, I think. > I'd rather have it only reflect actual usage by well established > routing engines only. Thoughts?
I am a little surprised that Scout US does not use highway=path for pedestrian routing. Once more router providers document what they use it might be nice to consolidate the information into a single page/table. But getting anything documented is a wonderful step. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us