Re: [Talk-GB] Mapquest routing

2012-03-09 Thread Philip Barnes
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 13:22 +, Andrew wrote: > Andy Allan writes: > > > > > I'll bet it's to do with the US. > > > > I think that in the US we are mapping "freeways" as either > > highway=motorway (for freeways that cross state lines, i.e. > > Interstates) or highway=trunk (for freeways tha

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapquest routing

2012-03-09 Thread Andrew
Andy Allan writes: > > I'll bet it's to do with the US. > > I think that in the US we are mapping "freeways" as either > highway=motorway (for freeways that cross state lines, i.e. > Interstates) or highway=trunk (for freeways that don't). So, > translating it to the UK, the "avoid freeways" op

Re: [Talk-GB] Mapquest routing

2012-03-09 Thread Andy Allan
On 8 March 2012 20:55, Philip Barnes wrote: > Its not an OSM problem, but anyone any idea why they have done it like > this? I'll bet it's to do with the US. I think that in the US we are mapping "freeways" as either highway=motorway (for freeways that cross state lines, i.e. Interstates) or hi

[Talk-GB] Mapquest routing

2012-03-08 Thread Philip Barnes
I have just been having a play with open.mapquest. It looks really good, and would love to see it used more. I did come up with one strange, but hopefully easyly fixed, problem. I have put in a route from Markfield, Leicestershire to Wem, Shropshire. Initially it all looks good, it uses the M6 To