On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:35 PM, moltonel 3x Combo <molto...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 10/03/2015, Mike N <nice...@att.net> wrote:
> > On 3/10/2015 12:56 PM, Volker Schmidt wrote:
> >> If I understand correctly that you want routing to cross a park as long
> >> as the way in and the way out are connected to the perimeter of the
> >> park. This is only correct in parks where you are free to walk anywhere.
> >> Most parks in continental Europe do not work this way. Typically, but
> >> not always, you have to stay on the paths.
> >>
> >> To solve this, one needs possibly a new (?) tag for parks like
> >> stay_on_path=yes|no
> >
> > I agree - there needs to be areas of general walk permission established
> > before a router can include that area.
>

Or the router could have an affinity for the path but not so aggressively
avoid it if there's not a barrier way more substantial than bollard in the
way...


> Another common usecase is surface car parks. You've got lots of
> pedestrian paths that lead to it, but nothing explicit inside it, and
> even following the service=parking_aisle ways would be too
> restrictive.


These could be mapped as highway=surface, area=yes anyway (not sure how
well routing engines actually handle this, but navigable areas are hardly
unique to carparks).
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