[OSM-talk-be] Destination tagging on motorways

[Marc Gemis]

my old GPS always used the "national_ref", so it didn't know about the E19,
but always said "enter the A2", which is equally annoying as using the
wrong city as in your case (not sure about the 2, could have been A1, but
you get the picture)


On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Glenn Plas <glenn at byte-consult.be> wrote:

> My new car's GPS isn't that bad ioverall, but it has lane navigation
> assistance and will tell you which lane to follow in order to get to the
> destination and also show how many lanes I can choose from.
>
> The only issue I have is almost all the time it will reference some city
> that is not on the sign's along the road.   It's not wrong but you need
> some knowledge in advance to know that 'Weerde' is actually 'Zemst'.
> the GPS will mention Zemst correctly, but the exit sign only has
> 'Hofstade', 'Weerde' on it...
>
> I think it's a TomTom embedded , and I have it in English because that
> annoying dutch voice drives me nuts.
>
> (brand with the star)
>
> Glenn
>
>
> On 11-09-14 07:08, Marc Gemis wrote:
> > The GPS in my car says something like take the A5 towards Brno. It
> > always tells the ref and one of the names on the sign. Furthermore it
> > displays a sign with the ref and some names. Typically more than one
> > name, but not all of them I think.
> > and it displays the number of lanes in that direction (and in the other
> > direction). It also shows whether a lane is shared for both directions.
> >
> > So no, ref alone is not enough if you want to replace commercial systems
> > with OSM :-)
> >
> > regards
> > m
> >
> >
> >
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