Motorway names missing from instructions

Hello everyone,
Thank you very much for your detailed explanations! I have a similar problem, but it relates to responses for car routing (instructions).
Since cars are always routed on a road, all segments should have a name. This also applies to the example in the API Playground for the Get method:

https://api.openrouteservice.org/v2/directions/driving-car?api_key=apikey&start=8.681495,49.41461&end=8.687872,49.420318

However, when I do the routing for a route that runs on a highway in Germany, I don’t get a name for that highway (e.g.):
Is this a known issue that is being resolved? Thanks in advance!

REQUEST

https://api.openrouteservice.org/v2/directions/driving-car?api_key=apikey&start=7.702345399663591,51.504001383709635&end=7.616470557895012,51.51439055957174

RESPONSE

            "properties": {
                "segments": [
                    {
                        "distance": 9995.8,
                        "duration": 558,
                        "steps": [
                            {
                                "distance": 241.9,
                                "duration": 15.8,
                                "type": 11,
                                "instruction": "Head north on Iserlohner Straße, B 233",
                                "name": "Iserlohner Straße, B 233",
                                "way_points": [
                                    0,
                                    2
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "distance": 2198,
                                "duration": 78.1,
                                "type": 13,
                                "instruction": "Keep right onto B 233, L 682",
                                "name": "B 233, L 682",
                                "way_points": [
                                    2,
                                    35
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "distance": 464.1,
                                "duration": 59.9,
                                "type": 13,
                                "instruction": "Keep right",
                                "name": "-",
                                "way_points": [
                                    35,
                                    56
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "distance": 6355.1,
                                "duration": 288.6,
                                "type": 12,
                                "instruction": "Keep left",
                                "name": "-",
                                "way_points": [
                                    56,
                                    107
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "distance": 328.3,
                                "duration": 29.8,
                                "type": 13,
                                "instruction": "Keep right",
                                "name": "-",
                                "way_points": [
                                    107,
                                    111
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "distance": 130.2,
                                "duration": 19.1,
                                "type": 1,
                                "instruction": "Turn right",
                                "name": "-",
                                "way_points": [
                                    111,
                                    115
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "distance": 135.9,
                                "duration": 32.6,
                                "type": 1,
                                "instruction": "Turn right onto Wilhelmstraße",
                                "name": "Wilhelmstraße",
                                "way_points": [
                                    115,
                                    119
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "distance": 71.2,
                                "duration": 17.1,
                                "type": 0,
                                "instruction": "Turn left onto Bertha-Krupp-Straße",
                                "name": "Bertha-Krupp-Straße",
                                "way_points": [
                                    119,
                                    121
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "distance": 71.1,
                                "duration": 17.1,
                                "type": 0,
                                "instruction": "Turn left",
                                "name": "-",
                                "way_points": [
                                    121,
                                    125
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "distance": 0,
                                "duration": 0,
                                "type": 10,
                                "instruction": "Arrive at your destination, straight ahead",
                                "name": "-",
                                "way_points": [
                                    125,
                                    125
                                ]
                            }

Hey,

in general yes, this is possible, e.g. for the following request:
https://api.openrouteservice.org/v2/directions/driving-car?api_key=5b3ce3597851110001cf6248e2553546494b4efba514744ff48c2e59&start=8.648568,49.412872&end=8.641219,49.475096

you get

…
{
    "distance": 6840.7,
    "duration": 202.8,
    "type": 13,
    "instruction": "Keep right onto A 5",
    "name": "A 5",
    "way_points": [
        10,
        71
    ]
},
…

I’d assume that the behaviour stems from the data:
Compare Way: ‪A 5‬ (‪47362570‬) | OpenStreetMap and Way: 10739242 | OpenStreetMap - they are the highway:motorway_link roads that are used to drive onto the respective highway, and the former has a ref:*-tag, while the latter “only” has a destination:ref-tag.

Feel free to open an issue about this :slight_smile:

Best regards