Hi all, In the UK (particularly in rural areas) it is common to find a road that turns 90 degrees to the left or right without a junction (that is the road just continues and white lines mark it as such). Meanwhile another road may come in from the other side with a 'give way' style junction.
Although the road continues round the bend "SatNav" systems often think it is a junction and tell you to "turn right/left in 100 yards/meters". I wonder whether it is possible to indicate this in OpenStreetMap so that routing engines can omit this redundant instruction. == Example picture == https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6J5ZA1hu93bZmx2NTIxaHdfMUE/view?usp=sharing In the example Oban Road [1] turns to the right to become the northern section of Sydnall Road. All main routers tell you to turn right. In my opinion this is a redundant instruction (or could be better worded). I've tried to add extra nodes so that the road naturally bends but the main routing engines still tell you to "turn". == Question == Could we benefit from a new route relation? For example a "route_continues" relation? Would others find this useful? Regards, Rob [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=osrm_car&route=52.45362%2C-1.48598%3B52.45341%2C-1.48944#map=18/52.45332/-1.48771&layers=Q
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