[mkgmap-dev] option link-pois-to-ways information

Tue Feb 15 16:41:46 GMT 2022

Hi Gerd

highway=street_lamp was just an example of a POI that can get linked to
a WAY that can be ignored. There are others that are valid OSM tagging
that are irrelevant to the highway behaviour.

Actually, regardless of --link-pois-to-ways, there is a problem in the
scenario where there is typical road system linked to a small road
system by just a road with mkgmap:throughroute=no and a footway.
BaseCamp and the eTrex 30x really will route over the footway to get
into the small road system. MapSource and, I think, the eTrex HCx will
use the road.

I realise that this set-up seems unlikely, but can happen if there is
an inconsistency in the tagging of roads in the small system that
results in one not having mkgmap:throughroute=no that is joined to the
footway. My example happened in a business park.

My style makes this problem more likely to happen, while also trying to
fix it, by not setting mkgmap:throughroute=no unless there seems to be
a good reason for it. Good reasons are when there is a barrier on a
service road. This is the test I want to improve.

Ticker

On Tue, 2022-02-15 at 14:12 +0000, Gerd Petermann wrote:
> Hi Ticker,
> 
> if you find highway=street_lamp nodes on highway=* ways those are
> errors and should be fixed in OSM.
> Street lamps are normally mapped along the road, not on the road.
> 
> Maybe you meant highway=traffic_signals?
> 
> Besides that Basecamp should never route a car over a footway. That
> sounds like an error in the map data produced by mkgmap
> or maybe you used wrong routing settings. Please let me know how to
> reproduce.
> 
> No idea if your proposed change would improve routing, but feel free
> to experiment with that.
> 
> Gerd
> 
> ________________________________________
> Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-bounces at lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag
> von Ticker Berkin <rwb-mkgmap at jagit.co.uk>
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 15. Februar 2022 13:37
> An: mkgmap development
> Betreff: [mkgmap-dev] option link-pois-to-ways information
> 
> Hi all
> 
> To improve routing, I'd like to get information about the POIS that
> are
> being linked to a WAY that can be used as part of the style/lines
> processing.
> 
> The problem I'm trying to solve is to restrict car routing through
> some
> types of very low level roads (eg service) when there is a barrier.
> Setting mkgmap:throughroute=no on these works nicely with MapSource
> and
> older devices but BaseCamp and newer devices will happily route over
> a
> footpath to avoid a throughroute=no section.
> 
> At the moment, with --link-pois-to-ways, if the POI has a barrier or
> highway tag, mkgmap:way-has-pois is set true. This can be tested by
> lines, inc/access etc, but there is no way to find out if it is a
> significant barrier or something like highway=street_lamp.
> 
> points processing can set mkgmap: access & road_speed/class variables
> that are handled by inbuild code after lines processing to imposes
> more
> restrictions on the way and/or reduces speed/class; this is no use
> for
> what I want to do.
> 
> Possibilities are:
> 1/ have options to say which POI tag/value combinations cause
>    link-pois-to-ways
> 2/ set new variables on the way, eg mkgmap:barrier_tags/highway_tags,
>    which are a list of distinct POI highway/barrier tag values.
> 
> Ticker
> 
> 
> 
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