[Openstreetmap] Re: [Openstreetmap-dev] openstreetmap roadmap?

[Ehud Shabtai]

Frank Mohr wrote:

>Ehud Shabtai wrote:
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>>On 7/25/05, Tom Carden <tom at tom-carden.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>>The approach I'm thinking of is having a server which will receive GPS
>>>>tracks,
>>>>transfer them to road segments and nodes and merge with current map
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>>>Automatically?  How?
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>>Take the GPS traces, split them to segments (by detecting turns,
>>detecting intersection, etc') and add them as road segments to the
>>database. If the database already contains a segment near the one we
>>want to add, do some merging.
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>just this "do some merging" is the problem
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>i tried several approaches to join 2 track segments, but each
>failed in some cases
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I don't expect to find a perfect solution. It should produce good 
results and allow users to correct incorrect merges through an applet.

As I plan to write this utility would you care to discuss the approaches 
you tried for doing the merges?

Ehud.

>frank
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