On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Mike Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I just joined this list. I live in Cleveland, OH, USA but > I travel frequently to Ontario and about once a year to > Alberta. I have recorded and uploaded a few traces in Ontario > and in the last few years. > > It struck me that that participants of my other hobby, > Randonneuring, might be enlisted to contribute data to OSM. > > Randonneuring is long distance bicycling. Randonneurs > commonly ride 200 km to 1200 km rides. They are often riding > the smaller roads that don't get mapped as quickly by mappers > in cars. Many of them already carry GPS'. Their routes are > defined by queue sheets that consist of a table of turns, > distances, and road names (as marked on the ground). So the > combination of the trace and the queue sheet would be great > data. > > I'm writing here to ask how to get these groups together. > I know there are active Randonneur clubs in Alberta, BC, > and Ontario. There are probably clubs in all provinces. > > I'm on the email list for Randonneurs Ontario > http://www.randonneursontario.ca/ > <http://www.randonneursontario.ca/> > and I was going to suggest to the list that members with > GPS' start recording traces. > > If some take up the suggestion, how best should the trace > be linked to a queue sheet for the route it follows? If > they get involved and start entering map data, even better!
If you upload the gps track, just tag it with a tag like RandonneurRoute45 or something and include that in the description as well. Corey _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
