E-Roads?

anarchy-inc · Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 2:58 pm Post subject: E-Roads?

In the Preferences under "Navigator View" there is an entry listed as "Move E-roads to the back". (just after "3D Automatic Zooming"

What does this mean? This entry is not listed in the manual. Confused

lbendlin · Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 4:18 pm Post subject:

When a road has two names (like the A9 in Germany is also the E55 - (i'm making this up)) then the standard is to display it as

E55/A9

Now some people didn't like that because the E number is not always well known, so they asked to be able to swap the order to

A9/E55

That's all this is about.
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anarchy-inc · Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 4:24 pm Post subject:

Morris · Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 4:25 pm Post subject:

Just had a look in the manual (TT2 and TT3) and I can't find it.

As far as I am aware all roads also have an E number, this is an international road number. What TomTom does with this I am not sure.

See http://www.unece.org/trans/news/20011012e.html for more info.

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DavidW · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 5:57 pm Post subject:

Lutz's reply pretty much covers it - it's whether the E numbers appear first or not.

In mainland Europe, I believe roads are increasingly being resigned to show their E numbers. After all, many major routes cross borders, so using the E number makes sense. However, if you know the old road designations and/or the roads where you are haven't been signed with their E numbers, it may make more sense to allow you to prefer the national designations - which is the purpose of this configuration option.

I'm pretty sure some major routes on the UK mainland have E numbers - but as the UK is an island, they're less useful than in mainland Europe and may well be rather more of a curiosity.

David

anarchy-inc · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 6:03 pm Post subject:

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