Hi Maning, i'm also thinking of renaming them like the roads around Laguna. I was thinking or using the main roads of the towns as boundaries say, Calamba - Los Banos Road or highway. I intend to use it for Surigao del Sur...
lots of update backlogs for me, lots of unuploaded traces On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:58 PM, maning sambale <emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com>wrote: > Forwarding this mail to the list for further discussion. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: maning sambale <emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com> > 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 <eppgar...@gmail.com> 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 > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > -- --- I explore, therefore I blog. http://www.backpackingphilippines.com "I don't need a map! I have the GPS. Never need a map again, thank you" - Car lost on Route 66, Radiator Springs (Cars)
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