Show HN: Find the safest well lit walking route between two locations

Re:Show HN: Find the safest well lit walking route between t... by mfbx9da4 on Monday December 21, 2020 @10:29AM (#25495777)

Correct the primary data source was open street map.

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Re:Show HN: Find the safest well lit walking route between t... by igjeff on Monday December 21, 2020 @12:08PM (#25496865)

I'm curious what you're looking for in OSM. I looked at highway=street_lamp and the results were....let's say "sparse".

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Re:Show HN: Find the safest well lit walking route between t... by Freak_NL on Monday December 21, 2020 @01:11PM (#25497592)

The lit-key is used on ways and indicates the lighting of it:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:lit

The highway=street_lamp tag indicates that there is a lamppost (which can be a navigational aid), but is a much more detailed form of mapping that should be used in addition to the lit-key on the ways themselves.

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