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On 09/04/2011 12:00, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:daniel@daniel-watkins.co.uk">daniel@daniel-watkins.co.uk</a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hello all,
Over the past couple of weeks, I've come up with a couple of interesting
walks from my house. I would like to publish these on my blog, in the
hopes that other people looking for walks in the area will find them.
However, I haven't yet worked out a good way to do this.
One thought I had was to add all the constituent ways to a relation, and
then link to the relation shown on the OSM map (as in [0] and [1]).
However, I wasn't sure if this was an abuse of relations, given that this
isn't a walk that exists anywhere but in my head (as opposed to a more
'official' walk).
At the other end of the spectrum is screenshots and using the GIMP to draw
my route on (or using a mapping site like BikeRouteToaster to draw the
lines on, and taking screenshots of that). However, this seems really
lame (as you lose all of the slippy-map goodness, and the updating of the
surrounding area/data), so I'd prefer not to have to resort to this.
Has anyone else done something like this? Have I missed a project
somewhere which is designed to store such things? Any input would be much
appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan
[Footnote 0: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=77959">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=77959</a>]
[Footnote 1: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=93785">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=93785</a>]
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Adding personal walks with relations would certainly be an abuse of
OSM: just imagine if we had a tiny fraction of the country's dog
walkers doin the same! Such information is not open to verification,
and is not related to on-the-ground features. <br>
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There are plenty of sites for sharing this kind of information:
GPSies is one (see for <a
href="http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=szmbmawxbaehsmsf">example</a>
my RA <a
href="http://sk53-osm.blogspot.com/2011/03/not-very-mysterious-mystery-walk.html">mystery
walk</a>).<br>
<br>
There are also sites like Nick Whitelegg's <a
href="http://www.free-map.org.uk/freemap/index.php">Freemap</a>
which are aiming to integrate the sort of information walkers are
interested in sharing. <br>
<br>
If you want to use OSM data to generate the route using routing it
is possible to create a GPX or KML file on a number of routing
engines (e.g., OpenRouteService, OpenMapQuest). The resulting trace
can be displayed using OpenLayers with an OSM background or added to
a site like GPSies. Have a look at the OL KML example <a
href="http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/kml-layer.html">here</a>.
Obviously the route you choose will depend on how much technical
effort you want to expend.<br>
<br>
Jerry<br>
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