[Talk-ca] Fwd: workflow for elevation data
Paul Norman
penorman at mac.com
Sun Feb 23 22:15:32 UTC 2014
> From: Richard Weait <richard at weait.com>
> Date: Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 4:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] workflow for elevation data
> To: Charles Basenga Kiyanda <personal at charleskiyanda.com>
>
> There was a service, run by long time OpenStreetMap user lambertus,
> that displayed an elevation profile graph of a selected way. That
> specific source is gone or moved now, but this wiki page shows some of
> the similar details from a related summer of code project.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Route_altitude_profiles_SRTM
>
> It also appears that the routing engine YOURS can interpret elevation
> data to apply variable costing when evaluating or planning routes.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/YOURS
OSRM can also use elevation data when planning routes. For an example
of this, including elevation profiles try http://cycle.travel/map,
generate a route, and click on the mountain icon to get a profile.
Unfortunately cycle.travel is UK only.
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