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

[Nick Whitelegg]

>> 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.

>What about routes that don't follow roads? I've been on walking routes 
>that send you straight through a grass field, or through a lot of trees 
>with no visible path, just marks on the trees.

This would still be a recognised footpath, and thus a highway=footway in 
OSM. I make ways representing paths of this sort all the time.

Nick