Hi, > This may be unrealistic, but maybe you can include tracktype, surface > and the proposed key smoothness in your database, and allow the user > to select allowed values for each? Or even weights for each > combination? There could be default profiles for road bike or city > bike or mountain bike.
I personally would like it, but it would be a usability nightmare; the average computer user expects that the machine obeys the "do what I want" paradigm :) . [...] > I agree. I just used the service to create a route for me and was a > little > disappointed I couldn't download it as gpx. The problem is that various software and hardware expects it in different formats (gpx is not gpx :) . For example, Maemo Mapper takes a gpx track as a "Route". The waypoints with turn by turn recommendations are just trackpoints with a desc-tag set. OTOH, it is a bit picky about other (valid) tags. If something appears it didn't expect (maybe a waypoint in a track) it denies to accept the file. Some GPSr devices can use gpx routes, some can use gpx tracks. I remember that www.radroutenplaner.nrw.de once gave me a track which I manually had to edit to make it run on an eTrex Venture Cx. Currently it doesn't give me a usable file at all. It's worth a look anyway. In either case it is a very time consuming task to find a file format that provides the most benefit for as many users as possible. I guess the best one for starting a download was a track just consisting of the trackpoints. Best regards, ce _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
