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Thanks for all your contributions to OSM! If you ignore all of the greenery preference then it gives priority to tags: foot=designated route=root, hiking highw
by samcrawford 6y ago
Thanks for all your contributions to OSM! If you ignore all of the greenery preference then it gives priority to tags:
foot=designated
route=root, hiking
highway=footway, path, track, bridleway, pedestrian, living_street, residential, service, unclassified
maxspeed < 20km/h
Looking at your area (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/191828180#map=15/42.6423/-83.0444 https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/191828180#map=15/42.6423/-...), all of the trails are given equal preference. As a result, it then falls back to whichever gives the shortest path. It's choosing the asphalt one (linked above) just because it's the shortest path. In the future, I may add a surface preference option - so you could give additional preference to non-paved paths.
- c0nsumer 6y agoThank you very much for explaining that. That makes a lot of sense. I really wish there was a better way for tagging things like narrow/twisty natural surface trails vs. wide flat ones, but that seems all balled up in US vs. EU hiking things, MTB tagging... It's a mess. (Making it worse, someone naively editing a mountain bike trail in iD will end up inadvertently flagging it as highway=cycleway. And then people using OSM for cycling directions get routed down an MTB trail... Yay.)