[OSM-talk] Walking routes and OSM (again)

[Nick Whitelegg]

Hello everyone,

Richard's comments the other day have got me strongly interested in 
implementing tightly-bound (to OSM ways) walking routes in Freemap. There 
are a couple of UI ways in which this could be implemented:

a) Get the user to click each way in turn on the slippy map. Each way then 
gets highlighted (possible via OpenLayers Vector layer). When finished, 
user clicks "Done" and can add any further comments. This should be fairly 
easy to implement - and some of the code (detecting the closest way to a 
mouse click) has already been implemented, both client and server side.

b) More user friendly but harder to implement, more prone to errors, and 
possibly slow: User draws a walk route using the OpenLayers drawing tool. 
On the server side, the ways closest to each leg of the walking route are 
calculated. Walking route highlighted, and user then clicks done and adds 
further comments as before.

Any preferences, e.g do people think a) is too cumbersome for the user?

Thanks,
Nick