[mkgmap-dev] default style: highway=path means unpaved?

Tue Sep 8 09:34:34 BST 2015

yet in  brisbane , to ipswich area , most are paved with concrete , or
bitumen
some bicycles just  use the main road ..

So how can you code for that ?

Stephen

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Felix Hartmann <extremecarver at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well that was introduced because it is unknown. If you have a map and want
> to avoid unpaved ways - and select that - then there really should be no
> unpaved ways. If we don't set unpaved here - the avoidance will not be
> strict enough anymore...
> highway=path & bicycle=designated could well be a tracktype=grade2 and
> sometimes even grade3 or worse... And in cases of a mtb route - clearly
> something completely unrideable for a normal cyclist...
>
> On 8 September 2015 at 10:19, Gerd Petermann <
> gpetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just noted that the default style sets the mkgmap:unpaved
>> flag for many cycleways, e.g.
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/276070019
>>
>> I see intensive discussions about wrong use of
>> highway=path and/or wrong interpretation of that tag.
>>
>> The rule in lines is
>> (highway=bridleway | highway=path | highway=track | highway=unsurfaced)
>> & surface!=* & tracktype!=* & smoothness!=* & sac_scale!=*
>> { add mkgmap:unpaved=1 }
>>
>> My understanding is that highway=track is likely to be unpaved, but
>> highway=path doesn't suggest that, esp. not in combination with
>> bicycle=designated.
>>
>> Does anybody have a better solution?
>>
>> Gerd
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> mkgmap-dev mailing list
>> mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk
>> http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Felix Hartman - Openmtbmap.org & VeloMap.org
> Floragasse 9/11
> 1040 Wien
> Austria - Österreich
>
> _______________________________________________
> mkgmap-dev mailing list
> mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/pipermail/mkgmap-dev/attachments/20150908/ceec8590/attachment.html>