Do you shout that at the television every time AI is mentioned? 
This is not simple.
5-year olds can do some things that are not replicable by software, especially not by software that is avoid mysterious sort-of-working black boxes.
In What are the consequences of a disconnected path? - #25 by ramthelinefeed you were told that software is less smart than 7 year olds.
Now, after explaining that it is less smart than 5 year olds, I want to preempt: it is also less smart than 4 year olds (but faster) and it is also less smart than 3 year olds and for that matter in some capabilities it is also worse than 2 year olds, 1 year olds and newborns.
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Well if routing algorithms are so dumb compared to humans, why do we have them in the first place? And burden maps with paths which don’t really exist, just to help routers?
We could just let humans read maps and work out the routes for themselves. 
the same answer as for computers in general: they are dumber but much faster
yes, you can do this
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The next time I’m 8km away from one station and 7km away from another, and I want to find out which one is quicker to walk to, I’ll give you a ring …
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I’m eagerly awaiting your AI router implementation
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Well if you google you’ll see there are dozens of AI tools for that?
for what?
for guessing whether cyclist/wheelchair user/pedestrian can reach from footway to nearby road, where router has no data necessary to take this decision?
as maybe there is a deep ditch and maybe not?
I don’t realistically see how we can have a policy of mapping non-existent objects on the basis that they might compensate for the non-mapping of objects that do exist.
We should just keep beavering away, mapping the existing objects.
In this case passable connection exists and it is being mapped.
They are basically desire paths, I don’t see it as mapping something that “doesn’t exist”.
Since I’ve added them, routing is a lot better around my area (more accurate to my real life experience)
I saw another kind of mapping in Edam 
in the Netherlands:
The lock gates were mapped as ways:
Weg: 832548651 | OpenStreetMap
… and the path was mapped together with bridge=movable.
Weg: 187921888 | OpenStreetMap
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Care to point one out if they are so easy to find?
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- your link is broken
- going to Google Search does not help - as neither of top links can do that
Unless I am wrong? Which one of following can do that? Have you ever tried or just assumed that your guess how world works matches reality?
Please stop posting comments, material and links that you assumed to be helpful and have not checked them.
I think I’ve indulged this silliness quite sufficiently for now 