I've just added the air route from Zurich to Hamburg as a GPS trace file. I 'll try to edit the map later or tomorrow to see if i can edit some Airlines routes map data.
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I've just added the air route from Zurich to Hamburg as a GPS trace file. I 'll try to edit the map later or tomorrow to see if i can edit some Airlines routes map data.
Discussion
Comment from 42429 on 17 January 2010 at 09:16
Thank you for your offer, but many mappers think that Openstreetmap should NOT include air routes because they can change every day.
This topic has been discussed on German mailing list:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg16111.html
http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=3775
Yours, FK270673
Comment from Petros Palaistis on 17 January 2010 at 09:58
Thank you for your comment and all the url links you sent me!
Yesterday i've posted some gps traces and only one of them was an air route record (Zurich-Hamburg) ,but i see that all my records have been removed from the gps traces list.
Please restore them!
Comment from Petros Palaistis on 17 January 2010 at 10:07
I am sorry i just saw my entries are still in the gps traces list!
Have a nice day !!
Comment from Anna_AG on 19 January 2010 at 19:29
Yes - it is hard to know how valuable air routes are, they change with the weather ( east or west take off / landing etc ) and essentially take the shortest route, usually diverting slightly to fly over / close to major airports en route. It is understandable that you are interested in this but these traces could clutter real street traces. You might want to consider taking them off the OSM website.
Comment from Petros Palaistis on 19 January 2010 at 22:12
@ bri g
Thank you for your comment and the good explanation why air routes shouldn't be added to OSM website!
Have a nice evening!