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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: maning sambale <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:00 PM Subject: Re: towns and inter-town roads Dear Ed and everyone, I actually proposed this naming scheme for national roads without names [0], so far, no consensus. But I fully agree on your proposal to do this. Regarding the "the whole Trunk in Northern Luzon is simply named R-9", would it be better to use a relation for the ref=R-9? [0] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2011-October/003555.html On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Ed Garcia <[email protected]> wrote: > Guys, > > I have just been on a road trip to the north and have been extensively using > the OSM Garmin Map and experimented in how it can help me find my way > through inter-town "sidetrip" travel especially in Northern Pangasinan. > > I came up with some "nice-to-implement' things on the map. > > For starters, it was, and it would really be nice to have those inter-town > roads be named with the town names that they link. Example: Urdaneta - San > Jacinto, or San Jacinto - San Fabian road > > This is very useful as I found out that this helps a lot in showing the > traveler whether they are on the right route when traveling from town to > town. Like, it happened so when I was trying to find my way back from > Manaoag to Urdaneta yesterday. I tried following the streets signs at > Manaoag that say "to Manila" and was already on the road leaving Manaoag > behind when I saw on the GPS telling me: "Driving along Manaoag - > Mapandan" when I should be along Urdaneta - Manaoag! Now, if the road > had no appropriate name on the GPS, I would have ended up in the wrong town. > > I have already named a number of inter-town roads with the above naming > convention on OSM. Especially those that do not have any names yet. This > works well for primary inter-town roads. But, I have a slight problem with > Trunk roads ... the whole Trunk in Northern Luzon is simply named R-9 ... > How can we nicely incorporate the town-to-town info on trunks? > > Anyway, the whole idea on the above is to give the GPS user a good idea on > what inter-town road they are driving on, and an idea on what the next town > is down the road, and better even on how far down the road is the next > town. It would have been easy to navigate so if the GPS had the town names > as "waypoints" so the gps user would simply do a "find" or "where to" to the > next town. But problem is, the GPS (or the GPS map) does not always have > the town names available for searching. The towns cannot be found in > "Cities", well, because they are not really Cities. They can sometimes be > found under Points of Interest and by doing a "Spell Name". > > We must somehow have a Town category. At the moment, on my next road trip > on Dec 23, I will try to compile as much towns as I can and put them on a > POI list that is uploadable to the Garmin via POI Loader so I can do a > "where to" by pointing to the "extras". I will experiment with custom route > uploads too. > > yun lang po, > > cheers! > > > > > > -- > website administrator: > - www.waypoints.ph > - reeflife.eppgarcia.com > > PADI Divemaster #491048 -- 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 [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
