On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:16:18 +0000 Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:
> I have found some interesting stuff whilst playing with routing on > http://open.mapquest.org (which uses OSM). Have found that it cannot > route to Shrewsbury. > > Have found that the town waypoint has been put in the middle of a retail > area, with pedestrianised streets around. Am guessing it is because it > is too far from a road. It works if I ask for High Street, Shrewsbury. > > Have moved it so that it is close to High Street and once mapquest has > updated the map I will see if it works again. But maybe this is > something else we should consider. > > A good example of TomTom/google getting it wrong is Ironbridge, where it > leads you into a back street, rather than the centre i.e. the bridge. > My Navman (MY50 I think) also has problems generating a route to just a town or suburb without a street name. At the times these towns developed very few people had a car and even fewer had sat-nav units so the 'rule of thumb' didn't need to take vehicular access into account. Now social engineers have had their evil way, the 'rule' joins dinosaurs, woolly mammoths and this old System/370 operator on the dusty shelves of the museum and its up to the new generations to clean up our mess. mick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
