Hello everyone, Have added experimental, prototype functionality to Freemap to allow users to create walking routes by selecting multiple OSM ways.
If you go to http://www.free-map.org.uk/freemap/index.php?lat=51.05&lon=-0.72&zoom=14 try clicking on footpaths with CTRL held down, and you'll be able to select a walking route comprising sections of those OSM ways. You can then specify the title and description and upload it to the server. Walking routes are defined in terms of the OSM ways making them up. A further feature is that a walking route will automatically contain any map annotations that are nearby. So if you click on a path and add an annotation indicating that there is a good view, or the path is hard to follow, that annotation will be automatically included in the walking route. You can also now download a walking route (map plus description) as a PDF file. The main remaining issue with this is the possibility of ways being deleted - if a deleted way is part of a walk route, then the walk route will become undefined. This will really need to be solved by using additional database tables storing the nodes making up a way, so that the walk route can be redefined using the replacement way to a deleted way. Any comments on the approach? Thanks, Nick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
