Re: [Talk-us] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-04 Thread Dale Puch
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Antony Pegg write: > > just a quick note - we've added bicycle and pedestrian routing options > > to the MapQuest Open sites > > This will no doubt provoke the usual tirade of "but but but but", so can I > just step in here and post an unq

Re: [Talk-us] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-04 Thread Toby Murray
*Like* The bicycle router picks almost the exact route I take to work when I tell it to avoid hills. One thing I've noticed is that starting and ending positions are kind of weird when they involve a building polygon. I'm guessing buildings are reduced to a centroid point in the routing engine an

Re: [Talk-us] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Antony Pegg write: > just a quick note - we've added bicycle and pedestrian routing options > to the MapQuest Open sites This will no doubt provoke the usual tirade of "but but but but", so can I just step in here and post an unqualified "awesome". :) cheers Richard -- View this message in co

Re: [Talk-us] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 3/4/2011 9:04 AM, Antony Pegg wrote: HI all, just a quick note - we've added bicycle and pedestrian routing options to the MapQuest Open sites more details here: http://blog.mapquest.com/2011/03/03/open-routing-options-expanded/ It likes to use sidewalks (footways) to avoid one-way restric

[Talk-us] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-04 Thread Antony Pegg
HI all, just a quick note - we've added bicycle and pedestrian routing options to the MapQuest Open sites more details here: http://blog.mapquest.com/2011/03/03/open-routing-options-expanded/ couple known things: - We've already discovered highway=bridleway not included - we've updated the base

Re: [Talk-us] Trimet updates to OSM in Portland, Oregon area - workflow

2011-03-04 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2011-03-03 21:16, PJ Houser wrote: ... If feature exists in OSM but is incorrect, either in tags, directionality, or geometry: - make sure to maintain OSM tags while adding jurisdictional tags (copy/paste from OSM to jurisdictional, then copy/paste all tags from jurisdictional to OSM) Do