[OSM-talk] Route/flight tag

[Andy Robinson]

Paul Youlten wrote:
>Sent: 28 November 2006 12:11 PM
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Route/flight tag
>
>Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: "They will just look like a road and that will
>confuse people."
>
>Not if I label them "Route/flight".
>

Paul, the problem is that the gps traces confuse. We had some knocking
around in the early days and they definitely cause problems in understanding
what's actually on the ground.

Take your point about ferry routes not being physical mapping but since they
sit in contact with the water I think we can live with those and they are
useful on land maps since the transport modes also use the ferry's.

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk


>PY
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>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
>>
>>
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