Re: Feature request: info about elevation

[Jonas Danielsson <the sator gmail com>]

Hi!

Thank you for the reminder!

We currently use OpenStreetMap to get open map data. And they record
points as latitude/longitude.
For altitude they rely on tagging by us users, using the "ele" tag,
see: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Altitude

We have started using the Overpass API to get more information, and it
would be entirely possible for us to get the ele-tag, where it exists.
I have no idea how many places has the tag set. But if we start
including it maybe you can help out by adding it to places? :)


Example of place with the ele= tag:
http://overpass.osm.rambler.ru/cgi/interpreter?data=[out:json];node[name%3DBreithorn]%3Bout%3B

Thanks
Jonas

2015-01-17 12:26 GMT+01:00 Paolo Leoni <paolo leoni84 yahoo it>:
> Any chance to have this little/big feature implemented in Gnome Maps 3.16?
> ;-)
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729404
>
> I'm pretty sure that many users wolud be happy with this feature...
>
>
> Thanks!
> Paolo
>
> 2014-05-24 0:59 GMT+02:00 Paolo Leoni <ulixes84 yahoo it>:
> > That's right.
> > Indeed, it would be a good improvement for every not-car movement.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Btw, thank you all.
> >
> > Paolo
> >
> > Il 22/mag/2014 15:03 "Mattias Bengtsson" <mattias jc bengtsson gmail com>
> > ha scritto:
> > > Den 22 maj 2014 14:37 skrev "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)"
> > > <zeeshanak gnome org>:
> > > > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Andreas Nilsson <lists andreasn se>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > For someone who's more of a noob regards to OSM. What does elevation
> > > > > mean?
> > > > > How high up something is?
> > > >
> > > > Yes. :)
> > > >
> > > > > How would it be used? In what situations does it help me as a user?
> > > >
> > > > I don't know really, planning a glide or basejump? :)
> > >
> > > One thing that /might/ (I say might because I don't want us to focus on
> > > too many fringe cases) is showing elevation graphs for bicycle- and
> > > pedestrian routes when we get alternate routes. Graphhopper provides this
> > > data.
> > >
> > >
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