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What keeps routes away from residential areas? (piefed.ee)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/CoMaps@sopuli.xyz
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I can see that my CoMaps does not route through houses' yards. And, if the route either begins or ends at a yard, it does allow crossing there.
So, it is respecting some OSM tag. What tags are those that cause the routing to avoid residential yards?

For example, a route from 60.219, 25.065 to the metro station at 60.224, 25.076 is routed straight through the yard of a school with 7-year-old pupils, which is really not okay during school hours. The school's yard is marked as an area of type School Grounds, but of course many schools where it is no problem at all to walk through their areas can have the same feature... So, what are the tags that cause the routing algorithm of CoMaps/Organic Maps/Maps.me to avoid houses' yards? What tags can I add to the school yards in OSM in order to prevent routing through them?

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[–] [S] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child) 
access=private
``` is a bit incorrect in a place that has no signs whatsoever prohibiting access. That might the least incorrect solution in any case. What would be nice would be to find some other solution that would really coincide with the physical reality of that place. But yeah, I could ask on the OSM forum what they think about using access=private in such places.
 
And yeah, I've already noticed most of that road is definitely not a driveway. I'm going to check where the driveway really ends and at least turn most of that into a footpath. But of course, footpath will still be used for routing.
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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Good point, I see that in the definition of access=private.

    In Google street view there is a sign which to me appears to support access=private. Maybe you can visit in person to confirm. https://maps.app.goo.gl/cPwdin7944UKLykx7

    Edit: On the other side of campus, those signs only prohibit cars and motorized vehicles, so maybe there's no restriction on pedestrians.

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