Thanks you Sarah so much for the information. So excited to know some new tools. Will try that and updates you guys. - Tao
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 11, 2016, at 02:58, Sarah Hoffmann <lon...@denofr.de> wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 04:59:34PM +0000, jiangtao wrote: >> I'm a beginner using OSM service. Right now, I have a bunch of vehicle >> trajectory GPS coordinates with timestamp. I want to attach each GPS point >> with its corresponding road type, e.g, highway, local street. >> Basically I could do reverse geocoding using Nominatim, while it only >> replies with street information, without road type information. And parsing >> the detailed page (detail,php) is not viable since my data volume is huge. >> Do you have any insight of taking care about this kind of issue? >> Thanks in advance and looking forward to your reply. > > What you are looking for is "map matching", i.e aligning a GPS track to > OSM data and a geocoder might not be the best tool for it. There is some > specialised software around. > > The OSM router OSRM has some map matching capability. See the 'match' > service here: https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/wiki/Server-api > > Also BMW Car IT has just this week releaseed a new open source tool: > http://www.bmw-carit.com/blog/barefoot-release-an-open-source-java-library-for-map-matching-with-openstreetmap/ > > Might be interesting as well. > > Sarah _______________________________________________ Geocoding mailing list Geocoding@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/geocoding
