[Openstreetmap] RoadMap map generator / editor

[Ehud Shabtai]

On 10/17/05, Tom Carden <tom at tom-carden.co.uk> wrote:
> Ehud Shabtai wrote:
>
> What I'd like to see is something which refines a road with multiple
> samples over a few days.  You might tell the software that you were
> driving the same route as yesterday, for example.  Starting with the
> assumption that you're driving, and with some idea about route, makes
> things a lot easier :)
>
> Otherwise, why the assumption that the first survey was most accurate?  It
> seems a shame to throw away your most recent data in favour of your first
> attempt.

I agree. I'm not sure that's the client job though. The current
behavior of RoadMap is to draw the road using the first GPS track.
Next time you drive near that road, RoadMap detects that it's the same
road and links for that road the new GPS points (the road is still
drawn using the first GPS points), so nothing is thrown away.

The idea is that this information can then be sent to a server saying:
Here's a street segment and here's a list of all GPS tracks for this
segment. The server should then merge all the points to a reined
street segment.


> > That's my next goal. Creating a server for merging road segments.
>
> Count us in... it would be brilliant if people could submit maps created
> with software like RoadMap directly to OpenStreetMap (so long as the
> wiki-like aspect of it is maintained).

Can you explain the wiki-like aspect of OpenStreetMap? What does it mean?

Ehud.