[Talk-ro] Travel Experience

[Francisc TOTH]

Hello Stefan,

It's the best place you wrote, and first I will start with a big THANK YOU for the written feedback and oppinion, it's very valuable. 


I hope you had a nice trip through Romania. Now it's too late for this trip, but for your friends and for next time: www.openmap.ro/moto - this showss the state of the roads. You will see that you were very lucky having good roads even on the small ones - for sure a well planned trip.

Some of the things you mentioned can be fixed, some of them not yet as for example the compiler has limitations.

Checked now - Lock On Road - not working, I think this is compiler limitation

Terrain - yes, but maybe this can be fixed
Concurrent maps - I've seen that there are equipment differences, sometimes maps can be disabled/enabled. On my etrex this does not happen, otherwise I would complain first. Good to know.

All the best
Feri.



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From: Stefan Hegnauer <stefan.hegnauer la gmx.ch>
To: talk-ro la openstreetmap.org
Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 6:46 PM
Subject: [Talk-ro] Travel Experience


Hi there,
 
sorry if this is the wrong place, but I would like to share my experiences using http://osm.stilpu.org/garmin-mapsource/OSM-RO-20110727.exe on my recent motorbike trip through Romania, totaling close to 3000km in two weeks. Equipment used: MapSource 6.16.3 for route creation on a HP 5103 Netbook, Garmin StreetPilot 2610 on the bike.
 
- Map quality: mostly exceptional good quality even on small roads – big compliments!
- Routing: works reasonably well both within MapSource and on the SP2610, although the GPS 'lock to road' feature is missing for most of the roads I travelled (easily detectable as there is always a circle-of-error shown on the GPS device around the current position)
- main complaint: terrain description (orchard, wood, swamp etc.) is almost always in the foreground on the GPS device, i.e. the route is not visible 90% of the time, irrespective of zoom level. In some locations (for example the area between Hungarian border and Arad on the DN7) even the roads and villages are hidden behind the terrain. This is very annoying. I would switch terrain completely off for usage in MapSource.
- minor complaint: the terrain indication is mostly wrong (for example, it shows 'orchard' when there is forest, swamp when there is vineyards and so on – but not systematically, i.e. forest is not always shown as 'orchard', it all seems very erratic. But most of the time it is just plain wrong). This would be another reason to switch terrain display off.
- minor complaint: the OSM map and the base map of the GPS device are shown concurrently. For some unknown reason the much better OSM map does not take priority over the built-in base map which can be confusing when navigating without a fixed, pre-calculated route (i.e. using the GPS device just as a map replacement).
 
That being said, my trip would have been much more difficult without using your map, so again, big compliments to you! Keep up the good work!
 
 
Thanks a lot, and best regards
 
Stefan Hegnauer, Switzerland
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