On 2020-01-15 13:52, Lionel Giard wrote:
> Yes this is something you can do with any distance algorithm in available in
> any GIS tool. That's not something that i would ever map as it would vary
> with any geometry change of the ways between the road the point you measure,
> added to the fact that it add nothing to explicitly map it (in my opinion at
> least). It is essentially what any routing app will calculate when you ask
> "find the nearest POI" for example.
Surely the question is not about straight-line geometric distance/time
but about route distance along paths etc. in pedestrian mode. "Nearest"
is not nearest in terms of geometric distance, but the POI with the
shortest route.
> Le mer. 15 janv. 2020 à 12:45, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@tutanota.com> a
> écrit :
>
>> I propose describing distance_from_road tag, defined as
>> "distance in meters from nearest road" as a misguided idea that should not
>> be used.
>>
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:distance_from_road was recently
>> created by PangoSE and claims
>> "Useful for indicating the distance to nearest road accessible by a
>> normal car for people who cannot walk very long because of illness or
>> pregnancy but anyway want to get out in nature. "
>>
>> "I'm quite sure there is a clever GIS way of calculating this using a
>> routing engine,
>> unfortunately no tool or website has yet been created to easily visualize
>> this yet.
>> When this is available we could probably get rid of this tag or generate its
>> values by bot."
>>
>> I am 100% sure that such tags are not welcomed and especially bot idea is
>> really
>> poor, but I want to ask other for confirmation.
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