[mkgmap-dev] Routing problem and question about footways

Wed May 18 09:32:23 BST 2011

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:27:35AM +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
>The only solution is to fix the data. Here in Nuernberg, somebody did 
>draw all plattforms for public transport and marked them as footway, 
>but didn't connect them with the street. As result, you always get an 
>routing error if you try to route to a stop position for bus or tram...

Some people seem to prefer to omit ways through areas, such as 
amenity=parking,parking=surface or highway=pedestrian areas (plazas or 
squares). That tends to break routing too.

I came across a funny incident some time ago. When I routed to a POI 
that was along a plaza, the Garmin Edge 705 somehow chose to use 
gmapbmap.img, apparently because there was a major highway in the 
basemap running next to the POI. Renaming the gmapbmap.img did trigger a 
routing error.

	Marko