[Openstreetmap] RoadMap map generator / editor

Ehud Shabtai eshabtai at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 09:53:17 BST 2005


> That sounds really interesting.  Do you have some ideas for how, for
> example, two *slightly* different maps from 2 days driving in the same place
> can be merged?  Does RoadMap deal with that?

RoadMap detects that you are close to an existing road and assumes
that it's the same road. When you get too far from it, it assumes that
this is a new road and will create it.

> That's the fundamental problem OSM will face if we automatically convert GPS
> tracks into road segments. I'd be really interested to know if anyone has a
> well thought out solution, or knows of other software which solves the
> problem.

That's my next goal. Creating a server for merging road segments.

Ehud.




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