I like the idea no matter by what name others call it. A rose by any other name... As the application deadline for GSoC has passed you have some time to polish the ideas until next year :)
Konrad 2010/4/12 OJ W <ojwli...@googlemail.com>: > just an idea... > > say you have a location, like a business or an event. You want to > publish a printable map which tells people how to get there. > > Sure you could print an entire map of the area. But most of those > roads would never be used by people visiting you - they don't go in > right direction and confuse the map. > > So, idea: > > Given a location x: > > For every point that's 30 miles away from that location: > > Route from that point to x > > > If you recorded all those best routes from each direction, you now > have a map showing the routes that are actually important to get to > you. > > So now create a map showing *only* roads/paths that apppeared as the > best way of getting to you. Include a few side-roads and > roundabout-exits to give context. Then print/publish that as the > official way of getting to your location. > > Publish that, and anyone coming from anywhere will have an uncluttered > map showing the easiest and fastest way to reach your business or > event. > > Anyway, just an idea.. Do feel free to ping if you get nice results. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
