[OSM-talk] Route/flight tag

[Nick Black]

Its really worth it.  Its cool trying to guess how fast you are
going/accelerating/decellerating.  Especially when you are on a Ryan
Air flight where beer costs £3.50 for a little can.  You can see the
difference between the time in a flight when you get  a weird feeling
in you stomach from the plane turning and forcing you downwards and
the similar times when the plane ascends or descends.

It also really worries the flight crew.  On a ryan air flight from
Spain to the UK last summer  they asked me to turn mine off.  I asked
why, and they said it could "interfere with aircraft systems".  I
explained that it was a receiver, not a transmitter and was unlikely
to interfere with anything, but they werent having any of it and in
the light of the ultra paranoid lunacy that we live in, I decided to
turn it off.

I dont think its worth uploading the traces to OSM though - it'll just
confuse things.

Nick

On 11/28/06, Simone Cortesi <simone at cortesi.com> wrote:
> On 11/28/06, Paul Youlten <paul.yellowikis at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Worth it?... Well it's fun and interesting and doesn't really cost me
> > anything.
> >
> > I'll keep you posted on my progress.
>
> would be fun to see (for me at least), and even more if you can get
> data about altitude and transform them in KLM format (travel path)...
>
> --
> Simone Cortesi
>
> All that is gold does not glitter;
> not all those that wander are lost.
>            J.R.R. Tolkien
>
> _______________________________________________
> talk mailing list
> talk at openstreetmap.org
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
>