[mkgmap-dev] Bad routing on eTrex and MapSource

Sun Jul 12 09:57:46 BST 2020

Hi Gerd

I wonder if a combination of the closeness and parallelness of the
roads containing the start & end points persuade the Garmin software
that it is a dual-carriageway (having failed to notice both are bi
-directional) and incorrect data in mkgmap output is being taken as a
restriction to stop the joining road being used for an extended u-turn.

Later, probably won't be until tomorrow, I'll try assemble the data for
my other case where the routing is simply forced off the main road,
down an alley, u-turn, back into main road in original direction.

I'll also look for a similar configuration of roads elsewhere and test
the behaviour on BaseCamp/MapSource

Ticker  

On Sun, 2020-07-12 at 07:59 +0000, Gerd Petermann wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> My findings so far:
> 
> Attached are small demo files that show the problem with Basecamp
> routing.
> With demo.osm Basecamp refuses to route the shortest way in one
> direction and doesn't in the other when start and tartget are on the
> same side of road A. It also prefers the detour with "faster time"
> for one direction, with demo-more-than-32.osm it always takes the
> shorter way because the distance between the two ways is a bit
> longer. The problem also disappears when there is a curve on the ~30
> m arc (mkgmap writes different NOD data for this) .
> 
> I still have no idea if this is an error in the data written by
> mkgmap or if there is a special case in the Basecamp routing algo.
> While one can argue that a right turn can take long in a drive-on
> -left country one would expect that this should have no or only a
> small effect on the calculation of the "shorter distance". OTOH
> Garmin doesn't claim that it calculates the shortest route, it is
> only a "Route Preference".
> 
> Options to use: --route --preserve-element-order --drive-on=left
> If you use option --drive-on=right the results are reverted, means,
> you have to also revert the route to see the same results.
> 
> Maybe those who have an original routable Garmin map can try to find
> a similar case in their map and report if the routing works or not.
> 
> Gerd