Warning Boxes added to default Access Restrictions per country Wiki Page

[Minh_Nguyen (Minh Nguyễn)]

@SomeoneElse

The DWG mailbag gets quite a few complaints** of the form “xyz app, map or router is routing people along somewhere that it should not”. Unfortunately most of the complaints (by a country mile) are about closed source apps and maps that use OSM data in combination with others, and these often don’t publicise the rules they are following, so looking at what is documented won’t help.

Right, I only suggested a potential starting point for folks who want to salvage this concept of wiki-defined default access restrictions, but it has a very uphill climb ahead of it. The body of existing data consumers is definitely a limiting factor. Even open-source routing profiles get deployed and forgotten about.

And, uh, wait until someone walks into the room who thinks motorroad=yes should imply certain access restrictions too.

I would be a happy camper if we could even just get the major default routing profiles to fall back to half-decent speeds that aren’t overfitted to pre-pandemic downtown San Francisco when maxspeed=* is unset, based on highway classifications there that didn’t even follow state or national tagging guidelines (true story).