I went out on the bike and did Carseldine, Fitzgibbon, and a bit of Geebung. I think I've finished everything in the newer development areas around there where the satellite imagery starts to flake out. It's starting to look pretty too.

There's a few nonames and a fair few parks and things that might be better to do with walking papers, but other than that the area's looking pretty complete road-wise. It's been fun. :)

The issue that's concerning me today is to do with pedestrian routing. I've traditionally placed parks and commons a small distance away from the road, mostly because it just seems to be the done thing.

I'm wondering now if they should be "touching" in cases like this, at least in one point at either side. At the moment, it would take a seriously advanced algorithm to plan a pedestrian route through a park like this (and I doubt such a thing exists.) It would make perfect sense to walk through the park to get to the train station for instance, whereas walking around the road would take significantly longer.

The down side is you'd need an advanced editor like JOSM to successfully unglue and modify the ways if the time ever came. I'm loathe to stick things together like this (and I've only been doing so with landuse designations and the like, because it makes more sense to do so.)

So essentially I'm wondering what your thoughts on this issue are. How should we tag areas like this for pedestrian routing?