[OSM-talk] what road am I travelling along?

[Stephen Hope]

2008/6/21 OJ W <ojwlists at googlemail.com>:
> one of the more pathetic tricks of those proprietary gadgets on the
> car dashboard, is that they tell you what road you're on, as if you
> didn't know from the signs...
>

Actually, that is quite useful where I live.  The sign posts around
here show the names of the little streets, but the bigger streets you
are turning on to are named much less frequently.  You're supposed to
know them.  They'll be marked at either end, but not at every little
intersection.  This doesn't help you much when you're trying to get
out a of a suburb by a way you haven't been before.