On Jan 22, 2008, at 13:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Nick Whitelegg wrote: >>> >>> TBH I would be fairly dubious about tagging any non-waymarked >>> walks/cycle rides as routes, let alone ones of my own devising. This >>> is "interpretation" which should be kept out of the largely >>> factual OSM. >> >> The data might not fit into the OSM but its still useful. Many >> websites live from >> it, e.g. http://www.gps-tour.info/. >> >> IMO an easy way to maintain these routes would be to define special >> tags to the >> OSM GPS traces database (http://openstreetmap.org/traces). >> >> E.g. in this case the tag could be 'recommended_walking_tour'. >> The trace should contain only the tour and nothing else in this case. >> A routing application that is aware of these tags could notify the >> user >> about nearby recommended tours.
>But for that purpose, people can use gps-tour.info, right? OSM would >be interesting by allowing to present recommended walks, etc. as a >sequence of OSM ways. But this data probably would better go into a >separate database. >I'm sure there's an opportunity for a nice project here: A walks/ >rides database that allows to construct such walks by selecting way >segments. Perhaps you could also offer a program that approximates >uploaded GPX tracks using existing ways, and offer the ability to >upload missing ways (or refer to OSM for the last part). >I've also been thinking TrailRunner (even better: a free alternative) >should allow creating routes from OSM vector data. >Cheers >Rob This looks like a cool idea. One thing that's kind of been on my mind for some time is a custom walkers' application which makes use of OSM data - there are many proprietary/shareware apps designed for walkers (route planning, 3D terrain preview etc) which use proprietary data sets. If there's interest I'd love to develop such an app... :-) (maybe not just yet as there are other things I need to get done, but as a project for the spring/summer....) Nick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
