Hi Marko,
I just returned from a 60 km bike journey. The routing worked great. When I refused to enter a track that was covered by soft snow, the Edge either computed a new route or allowed me to continue on a parallel road while displaying the "correct" route on the map.
I went out on my bike late afternoon. Lovely here, sunny, 12C and no wind (or snow!) I quite often use the routing to test it and it always seems to cope if I decide to use a different route - it just recalculates after a while.
When I tested the feature, the zip info was displayed along with the city name when matching roads are shown. It could possibly also be displayed if you select a road on the map (not tested, just guessing).
OK, I'll look into this. The zip info would be a very useful addition.
On the etrex, I think the zip info is only shown with the results of an address search.
When I search for "14", the list will only show "14", not "140". Searching for "140" returns the road with ref=140.
You've lost me here - are you searching for an exit called 14?
In Finland, the motorways starting from Helsinki are numbered 1 through 7. The secondary roads parallel to the motorways are numbered 110, 120, 130, ..., 170. There is a road with ref=14 up north (not a motorway, AFAIK). In the search dialog for street names, the search is incremental for names, e.g., if I type "A", I see street names starting with "A". Same thing if I search for "1". Alas, if I type "14", the list will reduce to just "14". If I type "140", the road with ref=140 will show up again.
Thanks for spelling that out, I understand now. Hmmm, doesn't sound good. Not sure what's the problem there.
When it comes to joining roads, it would be good not to join long roads (several hundred kilometers), such as the 140. Now the list of matches will display useful information: which section of the ref=140 I want to go to. You could implement it so that road sections are joined when both sections are in the same "city".
Good point - actually, I haven't got my head around the joining of roads to minimise the number of hits. It's not as simple to implement as you may imagine.
I have programmed long enough to know that simple-sounding features are not necessarily easy to implement.
Due to time constraints (I do have to work as well!) I haven't had a real good think about this. I'm quite busy now so perhaps someone else will take up the challenge. To be honest, I'm fed up because I have put a lot of hours into the exit stuff and some more into this road addressing stuff and both features have annoying usability faults. So close... Cheers, Mark