# Route not being set over footpaths
**URL:** https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/route-not-being-set-over-footpaths/3067
**Category:** openrouteservice
**Created:** [August 13, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/route-not-being-set-over-footpaths/3067 "2021-08-13T13:53:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@markcoley](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/markcoley)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/route-not-being-set-over-footpaths/3067/1 "2021-08-13T13:53:06Z")
Is it possible to allow routeing by foot over routes that are set to allow access to ‘all’ but have foot set as ‘Not Specified’? I’ve found a couple of bridleways I run along that don’t allow routeing. I changed the foot to ‘yes’ for one of them near Manchester Airport a few months back and that now works but I found another one here:
[https://bit.ly/2XkT08d](https://bit.ly/2XkT08d)
that doesn’t. I’ve just changed this today to ‘yes’ for foot access but this might take some time to ripple through to your routeing engine. Given access to all is allowed, and then motor vehicles are set to ‘no’, shouldn’t foot routeing just work even if ‘Not Specified’, given the access flag ‘all’ is set to ‘yes’?
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### Author:  [@amandus](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/amandus)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/route-not-being-set-over-footpaths/3067/2 "2021-08-13T14:26:24Z")
Hi @markcoley,
whether a way is accepted [depends on the profile and the tags](https://github.com/GIScience/openrouteservice/issues/413) (note that the tag combinations are checked from top to bottom).
So basically if the `foot` tag is not set to and accepted value, the way will be rejected in the `highway !=` check.
[This issue](https://github.com/GIScience/openrouteservice/issues/413) on bridleways might also be related.
Best regards
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### Author:  [@amandus](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/amandus)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/route-not-being-set-over-footpaths/3067/3 "2021-08-13T14:31:54Z")
regarding:
> [@markcoley](#):
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> Is it possible to allow routeing by foot over routes that are set to allow access to ‘all’ but have foot set as ‘Not Specified’?
What do you mean with that? `all` is not a [valid value](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access#List_of_possible_values) for `access`. With `access:yes` routing via `foot-*` profiles _should_ work.
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### Author:  [@markcoley](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/markcoley)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/route-not-being-set-over-footpaths/3067/4 "2021-08-13T15:12:18Z")
Thanks for reply @amandus. It looks like that bridleway issue is the same one I have spotted. All bridleways are accessible by foot in the UK/Channel Islands. I’ve just checked the history and it was I who added it (as a cycle path) 12 years ago! (I did a lot of Guernsey back then - a really enjoyable time going along miles and miles of footpaths and roads I’d never been on). It was changed to a bridleway about 3 years ago and that is where the cycle/foot access must have flipped to ‘Not Specified’. I suspect there might be a lot of bridleways that don’t have foot access and the field is blank (or Not Specified) as it was never explicitly set. I’ve added cycle access back again too.
With regard to the ‘Allowed Access’ setting on the editor I mentioned, for ‘All’ it was set to ‘yes’ but having now understood the bridleway issue I can see that is purely the legal position rather than the mechanism of access. In essence bridleways need to specifically allow foot access. If OSM updated at some point in the past to allow bridleways without having to specify foot access it may be there are many bridleways with unspecified foot access and a presumption of access would be far more likely than not I suspect.
How long might it take for my corrections to the OSM data to ripple through to your routeing engine?
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### Author:  [@amandus](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/amandus)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/route-not-being-set-over-footpaths/3067/5 "2021-08-13T15:18:57Z")
> [@markcoley](#):
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> How long might it take for my corrections to the OSM data to ripple through to your routeing engine?
that will be 1-2 weeks. Updates are monday mornings. The graphs for next monday might be built already, so maybe the monday after
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### Author:  [@markcoley](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/markcoley)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2023, 12:00am UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/route-not-being-set-over-footpaths/3067/6 "2023-01-05T00:00:58Z")
I’ve found another routeing issue that I don’t understand (it’s always interesting when you find your own old posts!). I’m trying to measure a marathon course around Cambridge and there is a short section of cycle path / pavement that your routeing engine won’t show as an allowable route for foot, but it will for a bike. It seems to have the correct access flags in OpenStreetMap’s editor (foot = yes).
Please see [here](https://maps.openrouteservice.org/#/directions/Hills%20Road,Cambridge,England,United%20Kingdom/Hills%20Road,Cambridge,England,United%20Kingdom/data/55,130,32,198,15,97,4,224,38,9,96,59,2,24,5,192,166,6,113,0,184,64,6,0,232,4,96,5,128,118,1,153,240,13,128,78,98,239,206,242,159,212,128,152,1,160,21,131,147,200,246,32,3,152,101,97,124,57,209,161,192,55,17,50,228,37,213,35,212,177,53,210,198,247,236,80,105,58,60,90,85,42,92,112,144,92,64,64,0,234,158,4,68,216,114,128,5,229,0,45,174,50,86,111,64,128,6,111,0,3,110,139,130,0,21,10,128,11,64,14,236,140,16,13,100,128,14,105,98,7,238,128,30,141,14,136,134,6,23,139,153,1,225,231,155,14,139,2,0,11,237,84,0,0).
The cycle path was last updated in 2020 so your database should be up to date. Do you know why it doesn’t come up as a valid route?
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### Author:  [@markcoley](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/markcoley)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2023, 11:24pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/route-not-being-set-over-footpaths/3067/7 "2023-01-05T23:24:59Z")
This is another [example](https://maps.openrouteservice.org/#/directions/Tinkers%20Clough,Bollington,England,United%20Kingdom/Hollin%20Road,Bollington,England,United%20Kingdom/Bollington%20FP%2031,Bollington,England,United%20Kingdom/data/55,130,32,198,15,97,4,224,38,9,96,59,2,24,5,192,166,6,113,0,184,64,90,0,152,3,160,17,128,6,0,217,200,19,148,154,7,100,180,202,5,96,97,194,1,165,96,102,99,8,215,43,212,161,66,0,89,90,21,106,84,175,0,220,68,203,149,98,178,165,113,189,196,0,230,168,75,79,126,133,180,212,171,166,184,202,132,215,108,82,86,157,26,189,158,72,97,108,225,129,219,180,55,16,215,135,3,140,136,23,8,4,0,3,170,60,4,34,54,14,40,0,23,148,0,45,174,41,54,168,120,116,4,0,25,188,0,13,186,46,8,14,84,42,62,0,59,178,62,64,53,146,0,57,136,72,22,122,14,122,52,58,34,24,17,94,7,100,50,114,103,108,58,44,8,0,47,152,208,0) where routeing by foot doesn’t seem to pick up the paths which have foot=yes coded.
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### Author:  [@amandus](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/amandus)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2023, 2:50pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/route-not-being-set-over-footpaths/3067/8 "2023-01-11T14:50:58Z")
check [Routing ignoring footpath options](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/routing-ignoring-footpath-options/4466)
Best regards