[OSM-talk] Bringing OSM to walkers - countering negative attitudes

[Lester Caine]

Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> Am I actually completely deluded about walkers being interested in Free 
> mapping? It would surprise me, because my own needs in this area were what 
> brought me to this whole Free mapping thing in the first place.

To my mind, Freemap is a lot more usable than openstreetmap simply due to the 
presence of the contour information. Even when driving it is nice to know what 
  the road is doing vertically and what you can see from your current 
location. The fact the elevation data is stripped from the GPS tracks is a 
major mistake in my book.

Given that the data is available, how difficult would it be to create a 
scalable layer similar to the NPE map layer that could be used with the osm 
data layer to provide contours?

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Lester Caine - G8HFL
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