Instruction format

An instruction exists of the following components:

• geometry: the place of the instruction in wkt
• distance: the distance alongst the route, beginning from the start of the route
• type
  • id: defines the instruction type, see below
• street: the street where the instruction leads you
• bearing
  • from: the bearing before the instruction
  • to: the bearing after the instruction
• angle: the angle the instruction makes
• importance: between 0 (can be ignored) en 1 (very important)
• exit: (only for roundabout instructions, type 12 and 13) the count of exits at which the route leaves the roundabout
• node: (only for instructions on a node network)
  • at: contains the node number at the instruction
  • to: indicates the next node number to follow

Possible instruction types:

1. : continue on street
2. : via point reached
3. : finish reached
4. : turn slight left
5. : turn slight right
6. : turn left
7. : turn right
8. : turn sharp left
9. : turn sharp right
10. : u-turn left
11. : u-turn right
12. : use roundabout counter clockwise
13. : use roundabout clockwise
14. : leave roundabout
15. : keep left
16. : keep right

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