As long as the name (or the ref/int_ref) of the street remains the same, I think the router should be able to give other messages than "turn right". There is no need for an additional relation IMHO.
m On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > On 27/04/15 10:45, p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: > >> == Question == > >> > > >> > Could we benefit from a new route relation? For example a > "route_continues" > >> > relation? Would others find this useful? > >> > > > And more importantly, if you need to turn off onto the minor road going > straight ahead it remains 'silent'. > > I have occasionally used a through_route relation in these cases, but > lack of support from routers does make it seem futile. > > Much like the via way relation, that one is so needed too. > > Why do I find that confusing? > > Currently in general the directions ignore corners even if there are > roads going off those corners. The complaint is about 'extra' directions > where the corner is actually the main road and the straight on branch is > the turning. If the directions remain silent one would in some > conditions get confused so the safe thing to do is announce both? > > The correct wording of the the directions should be perhaps 'road bares > right' and 'go straight on' rather than 'turn right' but that does need > the perhaps missing "through_route" information? As I said, the > inclusion of road names in OSMAND while useful at times does get > similarly annoying when a 'continue on Axxx' would suffice. In this case > the road id provides the "through_route" information ... one remains on > the same road ... and the straight on road has a different one which may > just be 'minor road'. > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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