[mkgmap-dev] Routing with the default style

Fri Aug 14 09:29:04 BST 2009

Hi Chris,

> > The tags "vehicle" and "motorvehicle" are not recognised so you will
> > need to add style rules to convert them to one of the access tags that
> > are recognised which are:
> > 
> > access (applies to everything)
> > bicycle
> > foot
> > hgv
> > motorcar
> > motorcycle (same as motorcar)
> > psv
> > taxi
> > emergency
> > delivery
> > goods (same as delivery)
> 
> Good morning, Mark,
> 
> and is mkgmap able to handle combinations of these access tags
> correctly, so for example if a road is tagged as
> 
> access=no
> foot=yes
> emergency=yes
> 
> then routing is possible only for foot and emergency ?

That should work as expected.

> 
> And what I just tried out on my Etrex:
> 
> motorcar=no is not impliying taxi=no (although a taxi is also a motorcar).

I believe you can do that using the style file by adding taxi=no when
motorcar=no is found.

> This makes it easy to tweak a style that uses taxi for
> a special routing (e.g. race-bicycles).

I would expect that others have already tried that. Perhaps someone can
report on that?

Cheers,

Mark