[OSM-talk] Living with 'improvements'

[SomeoneElse]

Lester Caine wrote:
>
> If the fix for this is to manually apply the national speed limit to 
> every road, then OK, it's the first time anybody has suggested a fix 
> and I'm willing to give it a try ...

(I'll assume that's not an entirely serious suggestion - the last time 
someone tried it it was very nearly bonfires and pitchforks all round!)

Perhaps you could try running the online routers that you're having 
problems with locally with bodged versions of UK OSM data to see what 
helps and what doesn't, and feed that back to the projects concerned?

I've not had any of these sorts of issues.  I use a couple of fairly old 
Garmins (an eTrex and a Nuvi).  The data used by mkgmap for the eTrex 
has had tracks explictly marked as private removed (and a few other 
bodges to help identify public footpaths); the data for the Nuvi has had 
all non-road highways removed to speed up route calculations.  Both work 
pretty well; I've not seen an "incorrect directions at junctions" problem.

Both might get confused with long routes; If I tried to navigate from 
Derbyshire to somewhere in Devon I might be waiting a while for a route, 
but given that I can head to the M5 while it's doing that, it's really 
not a problem.

Cheers,

Andy