[Tagging] Planning route in the shade during hikes either in urban areas or forests

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 7/16/21 19:42, bkil wrote:
> Could you perhaps share your reasoning or what needs to be improved
> for you to accept it or could you propose a better alternative?

I'm sorry to have to say it so bluntly, but no improvement can fix this 
proposal. Whether something is in the shade or not is dependent on time 
of day and time of year. It cannot be mapped as a constant. And even if 
you were to qualify that ("at noon during the usually hottest month of 
the day") it would still mean that you'd have to split up the way in 
tons of mini pieces AND the information would be useless for someone 
seeking shade at four in the afternoon. This proposal has so many 
problems that it should have been thrown out after the first few 
exchanges. It has zero chance of being accepted.

If you want routing in the shade, your router will have to employ a 
mathematical model during graph building to derive that property from 
nearby shade-giving structures. Yes, that is more complex than the "few 
lines of code" that you mention in your wiki page. But we can't pollute 
our whole database with derived information just to save someone from 
having to do the math.

Bye
Frederik

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