On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Hermann Kraus <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > I have applied for SoC to write an preprocessor that adds altitude data to > ways to allow better bicycle routing, etc. > The complete application text is available at [1] for those of you who > don't have access to Google's mentor interface.
> I'm also interested in some feedback on this point. What do the people on > this mailinglist think about it? Hi Hermann, Sounds like your project overlaps quite a bit with Sjors from GSoC 2008 - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Route_altitude_profiles_SRTM So you can probably learn a lot from that - especially why looking at nodes or endpoints of ways isn't great - you miss a lot of detail (potentially entire hills!) along the way! I don't think Sjors work ever influenced routing decisions, so there's still work for you to do. I would suggest looking into his work, and looking at yours as an extension of what's gone before. Cheers, Andy > Regards, > > Hermann > > > [1] http://r2d2.stefanm.com/soc2009/application2009_altitude.txt > [2] http://www.uni-r.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
