[OSM-talk] Easy to use system for countryside surveying

[Nic Roets]

Hello Nick,

And if the walker deviates from the path ? Or comes across an unmapped
footpath that he doesn't want to take ? Or spots some POI that needs to be
added ?

The mobile editor in my gosmore program doesn't do track simplification. And
the ways it generates do need to be connected afterwards by JOSM or similar
editor. But it at least allows me to quickly sketch all the ways and nodes
with the commonly used tags while I'm taking a breather.

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Nick Whitelegg <Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk
> wrote:

>
> A user could survey their walk using an N95 or similar, and then, using a
> very simple interface, select whether they are on a footpath, bridleway,
> unclassified road, track, etc every time the type of path or road they are
> on changes. So if they're on a road, then turn off down a footpath, they
> could select "footpath". Then if the footpath merges into a bridleway,
> they could select "bridleway".  The result would be a GPS track with
> sections "tagged" with footpath, bridleway etc.
>
> A track simplification algorithm could be applied and ways generated from
> the GPS trace automiatically. This could then be uploaded to OSM for a
> more expert user (who could subscribe to an RSS feed to inform them of
> such uploads in their area) to refine the way, i.e. remove extraneous
> points and connect the auto-generated way to existing ways.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Nick
>
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