Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-28 Thread Lester Caine
On 28/04/15 05:10, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: I'd call this mostly a routing presentation issue. If the road name is the same, I'd want any super sharp curve to warn me: Tight left in 100 meters, or 15mph left turn ahead. The very fact of the OSM geometry ought to be enough to calculate the

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-28 Thread phil
On Tue Apr 28 10:10:00 2015 GMT+0100, Lester Caine wrote: On 28/04/15 05:10, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: I'd call this mostly a routing presentation issue. If the road name is the same, I'd want any super sharp curve to warn me: Tight left in 100 meters, or 15mph left turn ahead. The very

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-28 Thread Colin Smale
Agree with that! On 2015-04-28 11:10, Lester Caine wrote: On 28/04/15 05:10, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: I'd call this mostly a routing presentation issue. If the road name is the same, I'd want any super sharp curve to warn me: Tight left in 100 meters, or 15mph left turn ahead. The very

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
FWIW, I just wanted to fix the situation to give you an example, and someone else was faster, it is already fixed in the way I did suggest above: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/52.45290/-1.48908 Cheers, Martin ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread phil
On Sun Apr 26 12:35:57 2015 GMT+0100, Rob Nickerson wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread Lester Caine
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'.

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-04-27 10:52 GMT+02:00 Cartinus carti...@xs4all.nl: If you reread the original mail, then you'll see he already tried this himself and it did not work. Maybe this is caused by geometry simplication in the router? If you have a detailed look at the overlay you can see that the routing

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-04-26 13:35 GMT+02:00 Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com: I wonder whether it is possible to indicate this in OpenStreetMap so that routing engines can omit this redundant instruction. == Example picture ==

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread Cartinus
If you reread the original mail, then you'll see he already tried this himself and it did not work. On 27-04-15 10:46, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: FWIW, I just wanted to fix the situation to give you an example, and someone else was faster, it is already fixed in the way I did suggest above:

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread Steve Doerr
On 26/04/2015 12:35, Rob Nickerson wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread Lester Caine
On 27/04/15 09:06, Steve Doerr wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread Colin Smale
The trouble with nodes is that they are non-directional. Junctions in quick succession, and lane-dependent give-ways could make a challenging scenario for a program to try and make sense of. Why not tag it explicitly instead of leaving it to heuristics which (by definition) will not always get

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread Steve Doerr
As I understand it, there is an implied direction in that the convention is that the give_way node applies to the nearest intersection involving the way. But yes, I can see that involves extra computation. Steve On 27/04/2015 09:51, Colin Smale wrote: The trouble with nodes is that they are

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread phil
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

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread Marc Gemis
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,

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread Marc Gemis
I should have written then there is no need (with then when there is a name or ref that stays the same) in the other cases you need a relation. On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 4:18 PM, p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: On Mon Apr 27 15:07:45 2015 GMT+0100, Marc Gemis wrote: As long as the name (or the

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread Colin Smale
Won't work in the UK as there are plenty of cases where you have to give way and make a proper turn in order to stay on the same road name and/or ref. The concept even has a name - TOTSO which means Turn Off To Stay On. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Martinvl/TOTSO You cannot reliably

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
I'd call this mostly a routing presentation issue. If the road name is the same, I'd want any super sharp curve to warn me: Tight left in 100 meters, or 15mph left turn ahead. The very fact of the OSM geometry ought to be enough to calculate the necessary warning.

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread pmailkeey .
On 27 April 2015 at 13:52, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: On 27/04/15 13:17, pmailkeey . wrote: Is the 'through route' and 'the same road' the same thing ? and does it mean that the road number stays the same or that you do not cross the white paint ? One of the routes I follow

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-27 Thread Lester Caine
On 27/04/15 16:49, pmailkeey . wrote: On 27 April 2015 at 13:52, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: On 27/04/15 13:17, pmailkeey . wrote: Is the 'through route' and 'the same road' the same thing ? and does it mean that the road number

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-26 Thread pmailkeey .
On 26 April 2015 at 12:35, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-26 Thread Greg Troxel
Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com writes: I'm not sure I get your point about hint for router versus aid for navigation. I suspect this may stem from the don't tag for the renderer rule. If we look at the end use case the aim is to get a routing engine that provides an optimal route

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-26 Thread Colin Smale
The difference between routing and navigation is that the routing algorithm will work out which road you need to be on, but it is the navigation aspect which makes translates the routing graph to useful instructions for a human. If the main road does a 90 degree left at a T-junction, something

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-26 Thread Colin Smale
There already is a through_route relation, to show the path of the through route. It might not be well documented, but it is used (I believe)by mkgmap. There was a proposal, which was eventually rejected: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/through_route IMHO it was

[OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-26 Thread Rob Nickerson
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.

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing redundant routing instructions

2015-04-26 Thread Rob Nickerson
There already is a through_route relation, to show the path of the through route. It might not be well documented, but it is used (I believe)by mkgmap. There was a proposal, which was eventually rejected: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/through_route IMHO it was rejected as