Re: [Talk-ca] App for mapping running/cycling itineraries/routing

2013-08-18 Thread Yves Moisan
Z-data (or elevation data) isn't generally stored in OSM. It can kind of work for points (especially peaks) but doesn't so much for ways. Map renderings (e.g. OpenCycleMap.org) or routing (e.g. CycleStreets.net) tend to supplement OSM data with SRTM data for elevation. There's a lot of inf

Re: [Talk-ca] App for mapping running/cycling itineraries/routing

2013-08-18 Thread Gregory
The wiki is a good place to hunt down information on what's available. It's also a good place to record any project you start (with links to relevant code repositories like GitHub or implementation sites). Some pages I found: * The See More section on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bicycle#See_

Re: [Talk-ca] Green alleys in Montréal (ruelles vertes)

2013-08-18 Thread Guillaume Pratte
Hello Richard, Thanks for your reply! You can see alleys as a destination-only road: you can drive through them, but they are definitively not a shortcut, as you need to drive slowly. It seems that a living street is still a street, i.e. you have the main entrance of houses on the living stree

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 66, Issue 13

2013-08-18 Thread donneesouvertes...@gmail.com
Hello, I'm on the team working on a web site/app to show all Montreal's Green Alley. We have asked for Guillaume's help on how we could use OSM, after I proposed to the team to use OSM instead of Google. As far as Green Alley, most of them would allow cars. But, it's more like a service ro

[Talk-ca] App for mapping running/cycling itineraries/routing

2013-08-18 Thread Yves Moisan
Hi Folks, I'm looking for an app that would let me map running/cycling routes using OSM data. I've looked at the OSM page on routing and found Cloumade's site (1) which is quite interesting and usable but has limited functionality IMO. What I'd be interested in as a first step is the abilit