And not all motorway_links are tagged with destination at its beginnig (that's the case in Kreuz Bielefeld). That's correct, a lot of destination data is still missing in OSM. But, the situation is improving
This afternoon in live testing I found what seems to be a bug. Exits from a parallel lane, tagged as motorway_link, didn't show up with the exit_hint. Maybe the code does not know to which motorway_link of the y-branch the exit_hint has to be put on. Is it possible to assign the exit_hint to the motorway_link which is going to the right? Cheers, Johan 2012/12/21 WanMil <wmgcnfg@web.de>
Thanks for testing.
In case the destination is tagged on the motorway_link you can easily add that to the exit_hint way name: highway=motorway_link & mkgmap:exit_hint=true { delete display_name; name 'Exit ${mkgmap:exit_hint_ref} ${mkgmap:exit_hint_name}' ${destination} | 'Exit ${mkgmap:exit_hint_ref} ${mkgmap:exit_hint_name}' | 'Exit ${mkgmap:exit_hint_ref} ${mkgmap:exit_hint_exit_to}' | 'Exit ${mkgmap:exit_hint_exit_to}' | 'Exit ${mkgmap:exit_hint_name}' | 'Exit ${mkgmap:exit_hint_ref}' }
But in most cases the text is too long and is therefore not displayed. And not all motorway_links are tagged with destination at its beginnig (that's the case in Kreuz Bielefeld).
I will try to analyze if the exit leads to lower grade highways. Anyhow with the current implementation you will get the hint to leave on exit number NN at Kreuz XXX. And just after exiting you get the destination as hint. But for some case that might be too late....
WanMil
Thanks for this great feature WanMil! At exits it works as expected, One thing though. Not all motorway_junction nodes are related to exits. In some cases they are used for the name of interchanges (like 'Kreuz Bielefeld <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.94222&lon=8.545&zoom=16&layers=M "). At this moment Mapsource shows 'exit Kreuz Bielefeld' and not the destination. Is there a way to make a distinction, possibly by the difference that exits always lead to lower grade highways?
Cheers, Johan
2012/12/20 WanMil <wmgcnfg@web.de <mailto:wmgcnfg@web.de>>
> On 12/18/12 12:18 PM, WanMil wrote: >>> >>> have you looked at the exit_to tag? in the US, we're generally using exit_to >>> to contain the text from the exit sign prior to the actual exit, so if >>> it exists, >>> it should match the local signage. >>> >>> Yes, I've seen that. This is also on the TODO list :-) >>> > ok. it has some value simply due to the fact that we've been busy > populating it. > > richard >
Hi Richard,
I've added support for exit_to tagging. The exit_to tags are available in the hint part with the tag mkgmap:exit_hint_exit_to
WanMil
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