On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 06:33:04PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
ael <witwall3@disroot.org> writes: I prefer soemthing like a polygon of type highway=path that covers the free-routable space, to which regular ways are connected to. Sort of the same thing, but without adding relations in, and treating free-routable areas as first-class items similar to line-routable ways.
I did briefly consider something like that: particlarly using areas. But relations are more general. There are situations where the areas are only accessible for portions of the boundary. But I haven't thought any of this through. More importantly, I have not implemented a router. People familiar with routing algorithms and their practical problems really need to drive this sort of thing. ael