OSM: Are there any plans to allow waypoint dragging on routes?

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Wed Feb 14 07:10:54 UTC 2018


On 14/02/18 02:04, Jamie Guthrie wrote:

> Or rather, is there any objection if I start working on being able to 
> drag routes from any point along the route to create way points? (i.e. 
> similar to how its possible in Google and Bing maps)
> 
> It would require some work to allow OSM.Directions to handle more than 
> just the two Endpoints, but I can't see it being too excessively 
> difficult to implement..

The only thing I'd say is to bear in mind that we're not trying to
reimplement Google Maps and provided a full featured end-user mapping
experience.

Routing exists because it's useful for mappers to check connectivity
issues - the question is does adding waypoints help with that?

Tom

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