If you are talking about the Maricourt Boulevard and the Kimber Boulevard, there is no indication that it is forbidden to cross the track there and there is no fence at all. Everybody just crosses the track there wihtout any problem whatsoever. I understand that this may be illegal, but most of the time, when the CN or CP doesn't want people to cross, they add very clear signs to alert pedestrians. I honestly don't know what to do here, since removing the paths will make the routing engine to return large detours which absolutely nobody will do in real life. I think we should at least make them access=permissible

What do you think?

I use an up to date version of id editor that I compile on my own machine, so that is why localhost is appearing. No problem here. For the google imagery, I did not used it since it is blacklisted in id editor and selecting it will just go back to none, but it appeared in the list and I don't know why it was chosen since I used Mapbox and ESRI. I will try to fix this in the code...

Hi!

I understand your concern, and I may have added too many paths to connect to nearest streets, but we need to make sure openstreetmap is suitable for realistic routing purposes, which is one of its main use these days (osrm, mapbox, tom tom, etc.), and for pedestrian routing, we need to add paths to connect parking aisles to roads even if there is no official foot paths, because otherwise, it would mean too many detours and that would render pedestrian routing completely irrealistic.

The same thing apply to bus lanes: when they are tagged on the same road segment, we cannot differenciate between congestion speeds for cars based on gps data with bus speeds which are faster on bus lanes.

I think it is a good compromise to create separate bus lanes segments. If we do not, we need to create complicated custom parser for osm data to recreate these bus lanes for routing.

As a side note, we, at the Chaire Mobilité, will complete and enhance openstreetmap data for the whole of montreal area in the next months/years to make it completely routable, including bus lanes, cycle lanes and pedestrian paths. For pedestrian paths, I would really like to use a custom tag (like "plausible pedestrian connector" for routing purpose only) but I did not see any official suggestion on this issue yet. If you have any suggestion, don’t hesitate to tell me!

Thank for your understanding!