[mkgmap-dev] Omitting ref from named minor roads

Thu Apr 7 14:28:28 BST 2011

Marko Mäkelä <marko.makela at iki.fi> writes:

> It may be useful for road nerds to have the official 5-digit or
> 6-digit refs for ramps or cycleways in the database, but I do not
> think that they can be useful for a Garmin map user. A road nerd user
> can always tweak the mkgmap style. :-)

I agree that's true when those minor refs are not used in the
community.  That may be near universal, but my point was that whether
they are useful is a fact about a region, not something that can be
100% safely broadly assumed.

A broad assumption that is 99.99% right is certainly progress, and I
really don't mean to object - just to point out the non-universality.  (I
would put the percentage your assumption is right at at least 99.9%+.)

> My patch only affects the case when a minor road carries both a name
> and a ref. In that case, we would only display the name, not the ref.

That eases any concern, too.
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