There are several roads near me where it's legal to walk - but where I know that walking would be extremely dangerous because of no footways, narrow carriageways and fast traffic. Is there a way to flag these that would help OSM-based routing services like Strava and Komoot stop recommending them? I know the local area well enough to ignore Strava when it suggests I run along these roads, but I fear for people who don't, and assume the route will be okay
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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 23 pts · 1y
Some people use access keys with the value "discouraged" for this according to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access#List_of_possible_values
I agree with that page that it's better to tag objective reality: sidewalk=no, maxspeed=100, etc., and let routing software figure out to avoid routing pedestrians along something tagged with that.
SK53@en.osm.town · 7 pts · 1y
@br3d https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/16685382#map=15%2F51.55238%2F-0.74677
You could use a hazard=* tag
lucg@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
That way has no hazard tag?
And it also misuses note tag, which is meant for information to other mappers, not information to data users (perhaps description could be used; not sure, I don't use that often since freeform text will go mostly unused when there's usually tags available for indicating conditions)
SK53@en.osm.town · 1 pts · 1y
@lucg That was my edit a very long time ago as an example of a dangerous road, AFAIK before hazard=* had much if any usage, and possibly before some wrote on the wiki about a, possibly false, distinction between note=* and description=*.
I also note it now has maxspeed=30 mph, however, I never walked along it after my first experience.
JauneBaguette@framapiaf.org · 6 pts · 1y
pietervdvn@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
sidewalk=no, maxspeed and width should already do a lot