Re: Feature request: info about elevation

[Jonas Danielsson <the sator gmail com>]

2015-01-18 11:59 GMT+01:00 Paolo Leoni <paolo leoni84 yahoo it>:
> I saw the screencast you made and...it's wonderful!
> Thank you for your effort! :-)


Great!

> So, could I help you adding some elevation tag for some important places?
>
> Can I do it using OpenStreetMap website?

Yes, you can do it from the OpenStreetMap website. You need to get an account
and then you can use the in-browser editor to modify and add points
and relations.
We have plans to add editing of place data to GNOME Maps as well, but
that is something
to look forward to for 3.18 rather than 3.16

> Thank you!
> Paolo

Jonas
> 2015-01-17 15:40 GMT+01:00 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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