[mkgmap-dev] problem with highway=cycleway in default style

Wed Jul 6 13:52:59 BST 2011

Hi Marko / everybody,

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Ben Konrath <ben at bagu.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Marko Mäkelä <marko.makela at iki.fi> wrote:
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>> Isn't it a bit redundant to add access=yes to ways? Usually, you would
>> add access restrictions. I would say that this is a problem in the map
>> data.
>
> This is a good point. Looking at the taginfo:
>
> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/?key=access#values
>
> 'access = yes' is definitely being and it seems to be a valid
> tag/value pair according the wiki. I think it would be a good idea to
> remove the 'access = yes' from the OSM data. Perhaps we could remove
> this tag/value pair when mkgmap is reading in the data? That way all
> of the ways will be "normalized" to mean 'access = yes' if no access
> tag is present. And then we could keep 'add access = no' for the
> cycleways which would give the correct behaviour. I can see that my
> 'set access = no' with overwrite other types of access like 'access =
> destination' so it's not a good way forward. Thoughts? I'd be happy to
> make the patch.

A proposed patch to solve this issue is attached. Comments are appreciated.

Thanks, Ben
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