On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 00:09:43 +0100 moltonel 3x Combo <molto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/08/2015, John Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com> wrote: > > So, if you are looking for a route without steep grades, a former > > railway is a natural choice. > > Do people actually do this ? It sounds like a strawman argument to me. > I do a fair bit of walking and cycling, and when planing a trip I look > at the global topographic data but it never occured to me to look for > railroads. Why use the local railroad hint when you've got the global > DEM data ? How fine is the granularity of the DEM data? The DEM data I've found is about 5km. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk