Hi, On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 04:59:34PM +0000, jiangtao wrote: > I'm a beginner using OSM service. Right now, I have a bunch of vehicle > trajectory GPS coordinates with timestamp. I want to attach each GPS point > with its corresponding road type, e.g, highway, local street. > Basically I could do reverse geocoding using Nominatim, while it only replies > with street information, without road type information. And parsing the > detailed page (detail,php) is not viable since my data volume is huge. > Do you have any insight of taking care about this kind of issue? > Thanks in advance and looking forward to your reply.
What you are looking for is "map matching", i.e aligning a GPS track to OSM data and a geocoder might not be the best tool for it. There is some specialised software around. The OSM router OSRM has some map matching capability. See the 'match' service here: https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/wiki/Server-api Also BMW Car IT has just this week releaseed a new open source tool: http://www.bmw-carit.com/blog/barefoot-release-an-open-source-java-library-for-map-matching-with-openstreetmap/ Might be interesting as well. Sarah _______________________________________________ Geocoding mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/geocoding
