At 03:57 PM 6/27/2008, Nick Whitelegg wrote: >Hello everyone, > >Richard's comments the other day have got me strongly interested in >implementing tightly-bound (to OSM ways) walking routes in Freemap. There >are a couple of UI ways in which this could be implemented: > >a) Get the user to click each way in turn on the slippy map. Each way then >gets highlighted (possible via OpenLayers Vector layer). When finished, >user clicks "Done" and can add any further comments. This should be fairly >easy to implement - and some of the code (detecting the closest way to a >mouse click) has already been implemented, both client and server side. > >b) More user friendly but harder to implement, more prone to errors, and >possibly slow: User draws a walk route using the OpenLayers drawing tool. >On the server side, the ways closest to each leg of the walking route are >calculated. Walking route highlighted, and user then clicks done and adds >further comments as before. > >Any preferences, e.g do people think a) is too cumbersome for the user?
As a user, I'd certainly go for (a), much easier ... but would not that assume that every way always terminates at a junction and that the user's route segment is indeed mapped? Mike _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
