<div>Hi Maning,</div><div> </div><div>i'm also thinking of renaming them like the roads around Laguna.</div><div>I was thinking or using the main roads of the towns as boundaries say, Calamba - Los Banos Road or highway.</div>
<div>I intend to use it for Surigao del Sur...</div><div> </div><div>lots of update backlogs for me, lots of unuploaded traces<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:58 PM, maning sambale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com">emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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From: maning sambale <<a href="mailto:emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com">emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:00 PM<br>
Subject: Re: towns and inter-town roads<br>
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Dear Ed and everyone,<br>
<br>
I actually proposed this naming scheme for national roads without<br>
names [0], so far, no consensus. But I fully agree on your proposal<br>
to do this. Regarding the "the whole Trunk in Northern Luzon is simply<br>
named R-9", would it be better to use a relation for the ref=R-9?<br>
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[0] <a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2011-October/003555.html" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ph/2011-October/003555.html</a><br>
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Ed Garcia <<a href="mailto:eppgarcia@gmail.com">eppgarcia@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Guys,<br>
><br>
> I have just been on a road trip to the north and have been extensively using<br>
> the OSM Garmin Map and experimented in how it can help me find my way<br>
> through inter-town "sidetrip" travel especially in Northern Pangasinan.<br>
><br>
> I came up with some "nice-to-implement' things on the map.<br>
><br>
> For starters, it was, and it would really be nice to have those inter-town<br>
> roads be named with the town names that they link. Example: Urdaneta - San<br>
> Jacinto, or San Jacinto - San Fabian road<br>
><br>
> This is very useful as I found out that this helps a lot in showing the<br>
> traveler whether they are on the right route when traveling from town to<br>
> town. Like, it happened so when I was trying to find my way back from<br>
> Manaoag to Urdaneta yesterday. I tried following the streets signs at<br>
> Manaoag that say "to Manila" and was already on the road leaving Manaoag<br>
> behind when I saw on the GPS telling me: "Driving along Manaoag -<br>
> Mapandan" when I should be along Urdaneta - Manaoag! Now, if the road<br>
> had no appropriate name on the GPS, I would have ended up in the wrong town.<br>
><br>
> I have already named a number of inter-town roads with the above naming<br>
> convention on OSM. Especially those that do not have any names yet. This<br>
> works well for primary inter-town roads. But, I have a slight problem with<br>
> Trunk roads ... the whole Trunk in Northern Luzon is simply named R-9 ...<br>
> How can we nicely incorporate the town-to-town info on trunks?<br>
><br>
> Anyway, the whole idea on the above is to give the GPS user a good idea on<br>
> what inter-town road they are driving on, and an idea on what the next town<br>
> is down the road, and better even on how far down the road is the next<br>
> town. It would have been easy to navigate so if the GPS had the town names<br>
> as "waypoints" so the gps user would simply do a "find" or "where to" to the<br>
> next town. But problem is, the GPS (or the GPS map) does not always have<br>
> the town names available for searching. The towns cannot be found in<br>
> "Cities", well, because they are not really Cities. They can sometimes be<br>
> found under Points of Interest and by doing a "Spell Name".<br>
><br>
> We must somehow have a Town category. At the moment, on my next road trip<br>
> on Dec 23, I will try to compile as much towns as I can and put them on a<br>
> POI list that is uploadable to the Garmin via POI Loader so I can do a<br>
> "where to" by pointing to the "extras". I will experiment with custom route<br>
> uploads too.<br>
><br>
> yun lang po,<br>
><br>
> cheers!<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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cheers,<br>
maning<br>
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