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plepe / OpenStreetBrowser

An application to ‘browse’ the information in the displayed part of the map. Similar to common Wikis and also the main page of http://www.openstreetmap.org the website shows a narrow menu on the left side, most of the page is used for the display of the map. In contrast to most Wikis the menu is not static, but rather the content of the map can be browsed in categories. For the map a special style has been developed (sorry guys, I neither like the default Mapnik nor Osmarender styles), and special overlays are displayed to support the current browsed categories. When you click on an object (either from the list or directly on the map) informations on this object are displayed.
http://www.openstreetbrowser.org
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Feature request: Navigation #184

Open sbutler-gh opened 1 year ago

sbutler-gh commented 1 year ago

When I'm using OpenStreetBrowser, I find a point of interest. I want to navigate to that location. I would like for navigation instructions to be available in the OpenStreetBrowser interface.

This may not need to be a real-time interactive GPS application. As a perhaps simpler way to start, it could give you the full list of step-by-step instructions to go from MY LOCATION to DESIRED LOCATION. This, along with the updating location signal from your device on the map, could be enough to support people going from MY LOCATION to DESIRED LOCATION. In other words:

The interface would present a list of navigational steps to follow, to get from MY LOCATION to DESIRED LOCATION. It wouldn't need to present any more information or updates after delivering that initial list of steps (no real-time input or course correction). And a person could follow along their path on the route, by checking their updating GPS location on the map.

plepe commented 1 year ago

A former implementation of OpenStreetBrowser already had navigation included. I think it is a good idea, and I will investigate technical feasibility.