On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Try planning your route between Salem and Corvalis but you'll have to >> do it at zoom level 14 on OSM, and ******* pretend that all the roads are residential************ >> , where they are all white, including the primary highways, >> and motorways. How long would it take you to figure out the route to >> take between the two cities? > > 10 seconds, Corvallis is the closest major city to Salem so you can > usually pick up on it from the trailblazers. Purely by the map is > another matter; I haven't been out southwest of Salem in ages. You missed the important part of the statement which I pulled out above. There would be no trail blazers, there would be no indication whatsoever of the road type, size, or anything else. This is what I am dealing with. According to the descriptors for OSM highway tags, every one of these roads in the bush should be described the same way. >> Would you be able to pick the fastest and >> best quality roads? > > The trailblazers follow tertiary or better roads. Again, there would be no trailblazers in the database, nor any indication of which roads are better than others. James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
