GraphView plugin uses highway:steps for motorcars

[kay_D]

Just a minor bug, but with possibly "bad" consequences for car-owners ;-)

Reproduce: Open a map with some steps around. Open the route graph.
Chose route-set GERMANY (works probably for other sets as well),
select parameters Motorcar.

Observe that the route includes the steps. Steps should only be used
for pedestrians.

Path: trunk
URL: ​http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk
Repository Root: ​http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn
Repository UUID: 0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b
Revision: 2021
Node Kind: directory
Last Changed Author: Gubaer
Last Changed Rev: 2021
Last Changed Date: 2009-08-31 12:33:32 +0200 (Mon, 31 Aug 2009)

Plugin routing Version: 17382
Plugin graphview Version: 17371

[kay_D]

example routing graph including steps

[tordanik]

Default access rights for steps are

• access=no
• foot=yes

In this example, access=no was changed to access=permissive by manually adding that tag. This makes the step legally accessible for motorcars. It's preferable to tag the steps as foot=permissive instead.

While a real-world routing application definitely has to be aware of whether or not a category of vehicles can physically use steps, there is no need for a data debugging tool such as GraphView to implement safety checks. It can even be considered an advantage if GraphView encourages safe tagging.

I'm therefore setting this to "wontfix", but thanks for reporting it anyway!

PS: This bug report doesn't affect the ​Routing plugin, but the ​GraphView plugin. I've changed title and component accordingly.