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Route pedestrians over highway=platform
Please allow pedestrians to be routed over highway=platform. (This tag should be treated the same as highway=footway.) Currently, they are diverted onto the street, see e.g. here.
This is important!
I noticed the same problem, for small walk through sidewalk,where a part is higher, this is the platform. On the publiic_transport=platform area=yes is the highway=platform (routing) line. Routing line with tactile_paving, line drawn on this tactile_paving pavingstones line. The save walk route. At a highway platform you can expect people waiting for the bus. Because it is so small, there is no footway beside the platform.
Not routing over it can give a huge detour on foot, or with a wheelchair, this must be avoided.
Like the example above. On the country side, road with sidewalk drawn in. less roads, this give huge detour. Also when there is foot=no on the road. Or foot=use_sitepath. (if use_sidepath is used in routing)
to the hospital, and there is a foot=use_sidepath on the road unsafe route.
The problem seems to be that the data imported when extracting data (the original osm or pbf file) did not include railway=platform ways. Use this query on overpass turbo to include railway platforms and other needed data (piers and leisure tracks):
[out:xml]
;
(
way["highway"]({{bbox}});
node(w);
node(r);
way(r);
way["railway"="platform"]({{bbox}});
node(w);
node(r);
way(r);
way["man_made"="pier"]({{bbox}});
node(w);
node(r);
way(r);
way["leisure"="track"]({{bbox}});
node(w);
node(r);
way(r);
);
out meta;
>;
Any update on this?
As the problem appears on openstreetmap.org when routing with OSRM, should we ask them to perform what @kaligrafy suggests?
Also, this issue appears on the official OSRM demo website, so if the issue isn't fixed in the code, the above fix should also be performed there.
A fix for this would be appreciated. It currently leads to lots of broken pedestrian routing.
Another hack is to add the tag highway=footway on platforms, which is in my opinon, 100% valid.
While I agree with @kaligrafy (and I guess he means change not add), the OSM wiki suggests to map highway=platform for line features. So we should add it (also talking about us over in Valhalla, not supporting it either yet). Should be really quick & easy for both to implement. I'll fix it for Valhalla soon, can take a quick stab at OSRM too.
