On Mon Apr 27 15:07:45 2015 GMT+0100, Marc Gemis wrote: > 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. > There is often no ref, or name. If there is a name it will often change.
Phil (trigpoint ) > > 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 > > > -- Sent from my Jolla _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk