Can you send a gpx or gdb file of the wrong route? It's easier to debug that way.
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:20 PM, tutubi <tut...@backpackingphilippines.com> wrote: > some experiences in routing from QC to Paete, Laguna > > GPS initially wanted me to take Ortigas avenue probably via Manila East > Road, kept on bugging me even on Shaw. After Magallanes, it wanted me to > take Sucat road. > unit only corrected itself after passing Alabang and guided me to the > correct route though I took the narrow bypass route in Calamba > > routing from Paete to Nagcarlan underground cemetery was fine except the > untagged one-way road in nagcarlan public market (now corrected) > > my earlier reported routing problem in Munoz, QC was corrected with the > making of Roosevelt avenue into a road with no center island. Note San > Francisco del Monte (frisco) > still has the center island on OSM even though it really doesn't exist > except on the bridge near Roosevelt. Expect routing errors in that area as i > still don't dare touch the street (what's an admin boundary, btw?) > > I'm trying to know the routing algorithm of Garmin in determining route, and > the effects of GPS unit settings (shortest route, ecoroute). I presume > certain factors like distance, max speed, highway type, lanes are all > included but i don't know which is considered first. (one of my past jobs is > an inter-network routing engineer, finding optimum packet paths on the > Internet for a telco/ISP) that's why i wanted to know how i can tweak routes > to suit my needs) > > I'm using gps routing just to know if it's but i still don't trust it. > > as the saying goes, Trust but verify...or better: verify then trust! > > > > -- > --- > I explore, therefore I blog. > > http://www.backpackingphilippines.com > > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > > -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
