[OSM-talk-be] Wallonia hiking route schema

[André Pirard]

On 2014-07-04 15:00, Marc Gemis wrote :
>
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 2:41 PM, André Pirard <A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com
> <mailto:A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     It's a pity to see so little routes in Wallonia, to see the
>     existing ones poorly documented and to claim that OSM wants that
>     despite its "do it as you like with fuzziness" basic principle.
>
>
> One of the principles of OSM is that you can verify "in the field"
> whether something is true or not. This is not possible for "invented"
> hikes. As soon as the "inventor of the walk/hike" disappears, the
> truth is gone as well.
Aha? And how then can you verify boundaries "in the field" (all the
sorts of boundaries that exist)?
I'm quite interested in photographs.
They are just as "invented" as hikes and most inventors are dead for
long, starting 1794, even up to 1600.
Verify what truth? The same kind of information remains as for a hike
GPX trace or OSM route.
BTW, it looks like they lost the GPX trace of Columbus' trip to America
<http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Colomb#Le_premier_voyage_.281492-1493.29>
;-)
But they're still pretty sure about it
<http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/data/images/1313435-Le_premier_voyage_de_Christophe_Colomb_1492-1493.jpg>
;-)

But I'm not very interested in mapping hikes, because we live a very
regrettable situation.
They sell OSM based Medion GPS but the access and routing tags are full
of mistakes, the OSM contributors laugh at themselves about that, and
even publicly laugh at me for sounding enthusiastic about OSM GPS.
On the other hand, normalizing GPX hiking trails, that is making them
follow OSM ways, is something that could be done very easily but is not.
Instead, applications use the raw GPX traces made by the hikers with
which you must piddle where the author did ;-)
For OSM GPS, what exists does not work and what could work beautifully
does not exist.

André.



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