[OSM-talk] Route/flight tag

[Paul Youlten]

Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: "They will just look like a road and that will confuse people."

Not if I label them "Route/flight".

PY



Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
> Paul Youlten wrote:
>   
>> I noticed that there is a "Route/flight" tag on the Map Features page.
>>
>> Just by chance I am flying from London Gatwick to Alicante (Spain) 
>> tomorrow evening and was thinking of tracking the flight (2hrs 15 mins) 
>> with my GPS receiver. I will try to get a window seat and put my 
>> receiver against it - maybe cover the LEDs with tape (don't want to 
>> worry the flight crew)... Has anyone else tried this? hints? tips?
>>     
>
> I've tried it briefly, on a flight to Rome from the UK. It works. Please
> don't upload the tracks to OpenStreetMap, though. They will just look
> like a road and that will confuse people.
>
> Robert (Jamie) Munro
>
> Ps. Something kind of related that I did was screen-scrape the progress
> of the Virgin Global Flyer when it flew 1.5 times around the world, and
> plot it in Google earth in 3d. The result is at
> http://www.arjam.net/flyer.kmz
>
>