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

[Jean-Marc Liotier]

Anton Martchukov wrote:
> Recently I was thinking about that it may be possible to create a program
> that will calculate 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.

Ratings of the results is particularly interesting as it introduces a 
feedback mechanism to stream that elusive subjectivity back into the 
system. This sort of moderation could even be made social by letting the 
router choose the path preferred by users who have given similar 
ratings, or even take a social graph into account. In any case, this 
shows that if we want to let the subjective information bloom to its 
fullest potential, it should be confined to a layer above the foundation 
of objective data.