On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Richard Colless wrote: > Liz wrote: > Be brave > nothing ventured, nothing gained. > a circular way (usually) > one way (get that bit right) > highway=type > junction=roundabout > may have a name, but not often > join the other roads on > > Following on from this and some earlier discussion about naming > roundabouts..... > > I was testing the Garmin's route instructions on some familiar roads > today. Normally it says "SW on Northern Road to Roundabout", followed by > "2nd exit on roundabout" or similar. but one part came out as ""SW on > Northern Road to Northern Road", which seemed pretty meaningless. Checked > the roundabout in question - yes, it is named as "Northern Road". I've > deleted the name, and when it gets updated, I'll try that route again. > Seems like a good case for not naming roundabouts, though. > > Richard >
There are roundabouts with names - so "left at Kissell's roundabout" is a usable direction. I see stupid similar things on Garmin map without any special intersection eg "Smith Road ahead" when I know perfectly well I'm travelling on Smith Road already. It's not a helpful piece of information, and I think is more likely on a dual carriageway . _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
