Yeah, completely understand your stance on it mate. In the end I'd probably keep using Google anyway because most of my route planning is on unmapped roads. If they're mapped chances are they're too busy for a cyclist or I've already been there :p.
Just throwing ideas around as usual. ----- Original Message ----- From: John Smith <delta_foxt...@yahoo.com> Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:57 am Subject: Re: [talk-au] Webpage layout To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org, b.schulz...@scu.edu.au > > --- On Mon, 10/8/09, b.schulz...@scu.edu.au > <b.schulz...@scu.edu.au> wrote: > > > Under the search box seems like a > > logical place, even if the Events section needs to be moved > > down. Would it be hard to have the search results come up > > then once a route is calculated have the results disappear > > and have the distance/directions shown there? > > I was hoping to make the events prominent, but I guess if > they're already doing routing they've already seen them. > > > Obviously there's a lot of work to make something that > > complex, so it's just an idea to aim for. Personally I > > don't care for routing information in any situation, > > only ever distance measurements so I know that it's > > possible to get home before sunset. No doubt that's a > > fairly narrow view which isn't shared with the bulk of > > the users who would just want directions. > > I may not be able to do it all in the same way that google does, > but I think gosmore handles via routing, so if I don't disable > the to button, and track additional points it should work > similar to google, but they obviously spent a lot more > time/money on the problem. > > It's probably important to note here that I'm not trying to > compete with google, that isn't something I'd ever win. > > I'm trying to highlight benefits that OSM has over google, like > all the POIs, now that I've figured out a lot of the layer stuff > doing the routing it should be possible to do a POI layer that > is shown when people do a POI search. > > > >
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