[OSM-talk] walking routes?

[grungelborz at arcor.de]

> Robert Vollmert wrote:
> But for that purpose, people can use gps-tour.info, right? OSM would  
> be interesting by allowing to present recommended walks, etc. as a  
> sequence of OSM ways. But this data probably would better go into a  
> separate database.
>
> I'm sure there's an opportunity for a nice project here: A walks/ 
> rides database that allows to construct such walks by selecting way  
> segments. Perhaps you could also offer a program that approximates  
> uploaded GPX tracks using existing ways, and offer the ability to  
> upload missing ways (or refer to OSM for the last part).

For a routing app its not difficult to fit GPS traces to existing ways. 
It needs to do this anyway with the current trace. If it has some traces that 
contain ways that people prefer it could do a better job in selecting a good 
route. IMO the GPS traces DB would be good source for this. gps-tour.info can't be 
used due to licensing and it contains few city routes. 

The effort for now would be to define a set of tags that should be used for this 
purpose (recommended_walk...). The author of the routing app would need to download
these traces and use them to mark some segments as recommended. The data would 
never be saved in the OSM DB. 

Grungelborz