[talk-au] Download a route

[John Henderson]

John Smith wrote:

> Actually I was wondering if that's what he meant after I replied,
> technically it should be easyish to code something if you know the
> route ID, you can do a complete dump of the OSM data including
> ways/nodes.

Stephen and Steve are right.  Some GPS units allow detailed routes to be 
entered (either manually or from a data file), rather than just an 
endpoint to use as a goal.

Such a route will often follow a torturous path which includes 
out-of-the-way nodes and ways, and not be the path any GPS routing 
algorithm would choose.

>>From there it just needs to be converted into something else, if GPX
> is ok, you could just take the nodes and use that to make a track I
> suppose.
> 
> John, can you send me a sample of what you are after and the relation
> it was created from?

The Heysen Trail is a good example.  As mentioned, the google version of 
the route is available for download from: 
http://www.heysentrail.asn.au/heysen_trail/maps.php

The Heysen Trail is still very incomplete on OSM, but what there is of 
it is here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/124080

The Hume & Hovell Walking Track and the Bicentennial National Trail are 
other examples I'm actively mapping as time allows:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/308594
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/176684

John H