Hi everyone!

I do some contributions to OSM and wonder why it’s not building “shortest” possible way (marked as green?

Also, will OSM - OrganicMaps\CoMaps will introduce any time soon ability for public transport routes?

I try OsmAnd+ but didn’t really like it 😥

Thanks

  • PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml
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    13 days ago

    Because there’s no routable path there, and if there’s no indication of such a path being there, it should not be mapped. There’s cases of informal paths @roux2scour@jlai.lu’s picture describes, and may be tagged with “informal=yes”. Other than that, I’m not aware of any routing services, which would behave like you’d want them to. The path of the starting point also seems raised (as being on a hill), compared to the endpoint; so I’m not sure how desirable this particular case would be, even if it were to be supported.

    • veee@lemmy.caEnglish
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      13 days ago

      There’s actually a term for this kind of behaviour. It’s called a desire path.

  • Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    13 days ago

    From the picture it seems that the green path does not go through a mapped pathway.

    OSM won’t tell you to go over random terrain, it will only guide you through paths that have been mapped as walkable. For all it knows, that terrain is thick bushes or something.

    • MoonMelon@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      13 days ago

      To your point, here are two adjacent “parks” in Washington DC. The park on the left is fully open and walkable. The park on the right has a low fence and shrubs surrounding it. You could technically hop the low fence and walk there, lots of people let their dog do that so it can crap there, but both practices are discouraged.

      Also, if you are mobility impaired, or its muddy, or whatever, you wouldn’t want to walk in the park on the left either. So it makes sense that OSM wouldn’t try to shortcut you over it.