[OSM-talk] Height and Elevation

[robin paulson]

Tom Hughes wrote:
> In message <1218799587.31481.2.camel at leon>
>         Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> 
>> Have a look at my draft for Elevation and Height tools for OSM.  Please
>> help me improve it.  
>>
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Elevation_and_height
> 
> I don't really understand what you're proposing to be honest...
> 
> Is this something you want to add to the main database, or some
> auxiliary service you plan to run?

ok, i get this - it's aiming to be a set of tools/a framework that can 
then be used to provide new and interesting (height/elevation-related) 
output from osm data, rather than any output itself, yes?

sounds interesting - i've been thinking about using the srtm data, and 
elevation data from gps tracks myself a fair bit. i'm sure there are 
lots of novel applications that haven't been explored

i think 'Elevation profile along a way' is already being worked on, by 
some guy who signed up to google soc?

i'm not sure where the voting comes in though, that looks a lot like a 
new tag?