[OSM-talk] Can someone suggest a OSM/nearmap-based route-plotting tool

[Steve Bennett]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Andrew Errington <
a.errington at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

> Just done this myself, but only for a very short route.
>
> 1) Use JOSM
> 2) Download the map data for area of interest
> 3) Create a new layer
> 4) Draw route on new layer using downloaded layer as guide.
> 5) Export new layer as GPX
> 6) ???
> 7) Profit!
>
>
Ah, yes, that works. Well, you can actually skip 2, and just use the
slippymap plugin with osmarender as background. Except for some reason it's
excruciatingly slow on my machine. I'm launching josm with "java -Xmx1000m
-jar ..." and  windows is only reporting 235mb used by josm, with one CPU
running at 100%. Not sure why it takes so much CPU to download and display a
few map tiles.

Now trying Craig's suggestion - seems to work very well. What's the
difference between the different output formats? Ie, track vs route vs
course? It's an oregon 550, so I guess courses don't work, but what's the
practical difference between following a route and a track? The route sets
up a load of waypoints and tries to route between them? I recall trying that
once before and it only loaded the first 50 or something.

Steve
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