On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > > Show him some of the existing alternative renderings, like > opencyclemap and wheelmap.org. Also the University of Maryland > pedestrian map. > > http://www.map.umd.edu/map/# > > Then have a look at the route filters. ;-)
Unfortunately wheelmap is kind of sub-optimal for things like a university campus. They ignore building=entrance nodes and focus primarily on individual amenity nodes and (maybe?) entire buildings. Well virtually every building on campus is "wheelchair accessible" (by law) but the buildings are often quite large and may only have one or two accessible entrances which are often hidden away at the back of the building because the building was designed in the late 1800s when they thought it would be just grand to have huge sets of stairs leading up to the main building entrances. So just saying "the building is accessible" means nothing. Users want to know which entrance to go to. Now the UMD map indeed handy and I plan on showing that off if they ever ask me to another meeting about maps. :) The project to replace the campus map is a low priority right now so I'm not holding my breath. I did however whip this up in about an hour using Maperitive and he is definitely interested: http://shannon.telecom.ksu.edu/~toby/images/map1.png (gripe: Maperitive doesn't put attribution on generated map images!) Toby _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
