Thread: Truck support in NG versions

Originally Posted by the_bookworm

Just tested that today.
I put the 5.5m height in truck profile and deliberately went on the road with 4m tunnel (under a bridge to be exact). Just before the passing it says that my vehicle is not capable of passing through selected road and there were two buttons instead of plain "DISMISS" like in other alerts I saw. The buttons were "IGNORE" and "ACCEPT" in terms of accepting or not accepting the warning and planning a completely new road.

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Originally Posted by the_bookworm

Ludo, I'm quite sure that no NG's without additional skins are able to show the alert sign onto the map (like overlay), if thats what you mean. Maybe with some additional skins/ux this is possible.

Correct. So far only truck.zip provides that.

Originally Posted by the_bookworm

The alerts on the screenshots I posted come, as I suggest before, as follows.
The data (information) comes from .ftr-files, which have all the additional map data - weight limits, height limits and so on. It is used as additional data by the routing engine to avoid (if possible) roads not permitted for the profiled vehicle.
The visual infromation comes from truck.zip and it consist of additional more descriptive messages and additional signs (the ones on my screens). But I'm quite sure there is no additional information or different algorithms in truck.zip.

With truck.zip UX, the only additional info is insertion of routing restriction in routing screen. There is no additional nor special algorithm added.

Originally Posted by the_bookworm

Also, I never get turn restrictions with distances (refering the screenshots) before using truck.zip. And I never have such sign if the selected vehicle is CAR, for example.

Correct. This is why I keep asking for it and finally posted the codes to prove that it should display it.

Originally Posted by the_bookworm

I'm not a truck dirver, but I drive a large cargo van (panel van?) so sometimes I prefer to avoid small, narrow streets and then I switch to truck-profile. And, of course, as you already mention - one must use the grey matter wisely and frequently

Regadrs

Ditto. I have people that drive camper and large truck that height might be restricted on some underpass/bridge that don't want to get stuck.