[Talk-ca] weeklyOSM #349 21/03/2017-27/03/2017

2017-03-30 Thread weeklyteam
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 349, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/8905/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM? who?: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM#Available_Languages

Re: [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

2017-03-30 Thread Kevin Farrugia
Well, if distances are similar but peed limits are different, the router may prefer to go with the similar length route because it has a higher speed limit. Another case could be if the algorithm prefers the more major road classification over the lower classified road in the hierarchy, it could

Re: [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

2017-03-30 Thread Ian Bruseker
Kevin, That does make sense, but in the example Martijn gave, the starting point is well before the turning lane, so I'm picturing the car being there and the software still having time to make a choice which road to send it down. Why did OSRM pick to ignore the turning road given there is all

Re: [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

2017-03-30 Thread Kevin Farrugia
Hey Ian, The main purpose is to stop silly or dangerous things from happening. If a user misses their turn and the engine reroutes them to turn right where they shouldn't (or U-turn) the consequences could be catastrophic. When people are following a computer's instructions they'll follow them

Re: [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

2017-03-30 Thread Ian Bruseker
Martijn, Can I ask what is possibly a really dumb question? As stated earlier I'm not a lawyer, and really in truth I'm no cartographer either. I generally stick to adding POIs for stores in local stripmalls, because that's not too dangerous to the map. ;-) Not being an expert in mapping, I

Re: [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

2017-03-30 Thread Pierre Béland
Bonjour Martijn Le problème de navigation que tu mentionnes ne s'explique pas par les données OSM. Vous tentatives de régler ces problèmes des logiciels de navigation alourdissent inutilement la base OSM. Les cles turn peuvent souvent etre utilisées et sont moins complexes que les relations de

Re: [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

2017-03-30 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi Andrew (and let me reply to Pierre's comments too, sorry Pierre, I am a little slow parsing French). First off thanks for your additional comments, they are really useful. I realize that I should have shared more detail about what we are planning to do and will do a better job in the future