On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Brett Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > I used OSM on a nine day Overland Track Wall and found it very good with the > Garmins that I was using. Used the routable maps and found they were about > a one kilometre in ten understated on distance due to fewer nodes recorded > in OSM compared to the distance tracked by the GPSs. Still very impressive > compared to the expensive and poor quality Garmin maps. Need to work with > someone to get OSM bushwalking maps going as walking tracks, mountains and > huts need to be zoomed in a long way to see thus you get “lost” in the trees > finding them. Also the search feature on the Garmin can be rather > “broken”, by that items do not appear in the all POI lists but can be found > in sub lists. Bit more work needed by my to refine the tracks and the > features but gradually working my way south to north refining the track.
Glad to hear it - I added the Overland Track a couple of years ago, with the major side trips. From memory, I just beat someone else who had also recorded the trace but hadn't uploaded it yet. Regarding use of 'correct' tags like alpine shelters etc, I tend to get very pragmatic and use tags like "place=locality" instead so they show up. And pretty much a place like Pelion Hut *is* a locality - it's a major landmark and navigational reference point. What exactly do you mean by "Need to work with someone to get OSM bushwalking maps going"? Going where? On a GPS? On a custom website? In the default mapnik rendering on openstreetmap.org? Static printed maps? Steve _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
