<html dir="ltr"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>On Sat, 2020-10-03 at 18:36 +0200, Colin Smale wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p>On 2020-10-03 18:16, Tom Hughes via Talk-GB wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">On 03/10/2020 16:57, Philip Barnes wrote:</span><br><br>
<blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">They are intended to stop this type of routing</span><br><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_car&route=52.64994%2C-1.20491%3B52.64983%2C-1.2049" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_car&route=52.64994%2C-1.20491%3B52.64983%2C-1.2049</a></span><br><br> Which is techincally not illegal and in real world usage is not going to happen.</blockquote>
<br><span style="white-space: nowrap;">But unless the start or end point is on the flare why would a</span><br><span style="white-space: nowrap;">router do that over the shorter route on the roundabout... I mean</span><br><span style="white-space: nowrap;">maybe there are a few cases where the flare is shorter somehow?</span></div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">If you take that exit by accident, a fast router may tell you to take the sharp turn back to the roundabout. Some flares are longer than others, and some routers take longer than others to trigger the "off-route" stuff.</div>
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</blockquote><pre>But then is it actually illegal?</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I am begining to wonder if these are mostly attempts to make QA tool tight turn warnings go away?</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Phil (trigpoint)</pre></body></html>