[OSM-talk] Philosophy about Autorouting for Cyclists and new key class:bicycle

[Anton Martchukov]

On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:19:39AM +0200, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:

> After fifteen years of riding across Paris, I have developed a pretty 
> good mental model of the city. I would not be capable of describing my 
> routing algorithm offhand, but it features (in decreasing order of 
> objectivity) distances, elevations, surfaces, waviness, congestion, 
> shopping opportunities, motorists behavior and the likelihood of pretty 

That's the things that should be mapped - the facts.

Recently I was thinking about that it may be possible to create a program
that will calulate a cycling route for you based on those facts from the
database and your preferences. Maybe the result maybe rated
by the users and those rates are used in calculations.

As a cyclist myself I understand the reason for such a
proposal, but such marking will be highly subjective and I
would prefer to have more objective facts about my route in
the database and then make my decision, some automatic tools
may help me with this.

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Anton Martchukov                     http://www.martchukov.com
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