[OSM-talk] osmfilter, Calculating Speed, help appreciated

[Stephan Schildberg]

It would be nice to have the data of the uphill grade too, so that 
vehicles have a better control on their energy consumption.
Therefore data of slopes cannot be neglected.
I am cyclist.

Stephan.
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> It seems reasonable to progress this so that route finding and 
> determining applications can calculate or view data about the average 
> speed along various routes. This would obviously be helped by checking 
> that all the points were from an appropriate source (so another reason 
> to tag all uploads with the mode of transport used to collect them).
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> Then the possibility of navigation routines deciding that route A is 
> faster at 8am in the morning, but that during the daytime or the middle 
> of the night route B would be better, becomes more real as well.
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> I'm sure this can and _will_ happen, but I appreciate just not yet ;)
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