Re: [OSM-talk] Flight paths in OSM

2010-10-11 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On the other hand, it might be feasible to map approaches to airports as shown on official diagrams. There are also avigation easements that might be relevant here. Approaches (informally referred to as flight paths):

[OSM-talk] Flight paths in OSM

2010-10-10 Thread Dmitri Lebedev
Hi all, please, look at this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/80906020 It's a flight path from one airport to another. It's absolutely not real (aircrafts fly along routes and navpoints more like zig-zags, not the straight grand circle ways). Imo this data is garbage. None of these

Re: [OSM-talk] Flight paths in OSM

2010-10-10 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Dmitri Lebedev siberia.acca...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, please, look at this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/80906020 It's a flight path from one airport to another. It's absolutely not real (aircrafts fly along routes and navpoints more like

Re: [OSM-talk] Flight paths in OSM

2010-10-10 Thread Charlie Ferrero
On 10/10/2010 10:29, Richard Weait wrote: On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Dmitri Lebedev siberia.acca...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, please, look at this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/80906020 It's a flight path from one airport to another. It's absolutely not real (aircrafts fly

Re: [OSM-talk] Flight paths in OSM

2010-10-10 Thread Floris Looijesteijn
Charlie Ferrero wrote: On 10/10/2010 10:29, Richard Weait wrote: Agreed. That's a new account. I'll send a note to the new mapper. I've seen other flight paths in the data too, so he's not the only one. Maybe add some info to this wiki page?

Re: [OSM-talk] Flight paths in OSM

2010-10-10 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Yeah, mapping routes between airports is a bad idea. On the other hand, it might be feasible to map approaches to airports as shown on official diagrams. There are also avigation easements that might be relevant here. -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Flight paths in OSM

2010-10-10 Thread Mike N.
relations between all possible airports, that represents about 72,000,000 great circle relations that would need to be added to cover them all. From: Aun Johnsen Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 10:34 AM To: OpenStreetMap Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Flight paths in OSM If there is any interest

Re: [OSM-talk] Flight paths in OSM

2010-10-10 Thread Fabio Alessandro Locati
, October 10, 2010 10:34 AM To: OpenStreetMap Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Flight paths in OSM If there is any interest of mapping airline routes, than do it with a relation between the airport nodes, as great circles can easily be calculated between two known positions. Making lines on the map is easy

Re: [OSM-talk] Flight paths in OSM

2010-10-10 Thread john
As someone else mentioned earlier, the actual routes that the planes follow are usually not these shortest-distance routes. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Flight paths in OSM From :mailto:fabioloc...@gmail.com Date :Sun Oct 10 10:12:35 America/Chicago 2010 Why iwould

Re: [OSM-talk] Flight paths in OSM

2010-10-10 Thread Jo
wish to add relations between all possible airports, that represents about 72,000,000 great circle relations that would need to be added to cover them all. From: Aun Johnsen Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 10:34 AM To: OpenStreetMap Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Flight paths in OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Flight paths in OSM

2010-10-10 Thread Lennard
On 10-10-2010 17:44, j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: As someone else mentioned earlier, the actual routes that the planes follow are usually not these shortest-distance routes. And can change when circumstances require it. These kinds of fluidic concepts like flight paths are impossible to