[OSM-talk] Flight "paths" in OSM

Jo winfixit at gmail.com
Sun Oct 10 16:52:35 BST 2010


In the case of air travel the time tables and the locations of the airports
is enough information. Possibly how many hours before the flight leaves,
passengers are expected in the airport might also be interesting information
and maybe how long it takes on average to gather luggage on the other side.
What the airplane does while it goes from one airport to another is not
exactly relevant.

Although it would seem strange to route a complete itinerary containing an
airplane route. So many variables. At best one could give a recommendation
with the airplane as the last thing in the list. Maybe some suggestion which
lines make the connection to the endpoint and what the limitations are (only
until 23h, for example).

Jo

2010/10/10 Fabio Alessandro Locati <fabiolocati at gmail.com>

> Why iwould it be not useful to public transport routing?
>
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Mike N. <niceman at att.net> wrote:
> > Even a relation adds no information to the map, other than perhaps "these
> > are points on the surface of the earth which allow for an unobstructed
> > atmospheric path to be calculated between".
> >
> >    There are about 28,000 aeroway=aerodrome tags, and 12,000 runways
> > tagged.   So if we wish to add relations between all possible airports,
> that
> > represents about 72,000,000 great circle relations that would need to be
> > added to cover them all.
> >
> > From: Aun Johnsen
> > Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 10:34 AM
> > To: OpenStreetMap
> > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Flight "paths" in OSM
> > If there is any interest of mapping airline routes, than do it with a
> > relation between the airport nodes, as great circles can easily be
> > calculated between two known positions. Making lines on the map is easy
> > enough when you have the end positions, and nodes in between is not
> > necessary at all.
> >
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