On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 09:37:50AM +0100, SomeoneElse wrote: > Florian Lohoff wrote: > >ANY road should be used for routing - track/service do have an > >implicit access=destination and should not used for "through" > >traffic but have no route restrictions otherwise > > That may be the case where you live but I wouldn't make that > assumption worldwide. I certainly wouldn't assume that a track in > England without any access or designation tags was publically > accessible. > > Routers have a difficult job to do of balancing physical and legal > restrictions - there isn't a "one size fits all" answer. It's more > of a problem for OSM because commercial datasets for car satnavs > tend not to include the wealth of paths and tracks in OSM in > well-mapped areas.
Still - a track may be usable to reach a destination. For routers they may appear at the end or the start of a route e.g. access=destination any may not be used for through traffic. Mapfactor Navigator for Android is capable of exactly doing this - why arent the others? Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de
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