[Roadster] re: Routing Directions

[Steven Coffman]

Hi,
In response to the "what could Roadster do that current software does not"
request, I had a couple thoughts.

I do bicycle touring, and the best way to get from point A to point B is
on a bike is not the same as in a car. Some roads have wide shoulders,
bike lanes, low traffic volumes, and low speeds, while others do not. Some
roads vary by how well they are maintained. Bike paths (or
"greenways") are not on roadmaps. I'd love to be able to route
planning that is bike-aware.

-Simple Route planning (shortest distance)
-Restricted Route planning (eliminate connections that don't meet certain
criteria like speed, shoulder width, etc. where known)
-Append saved GPS trace to a map where it doesn't overlap known roads
-Edit and annotate individual connections with supplemental data
(e.g. one-way, shoulder width, bike lane present, traffic volume, traffic
speed)
-Apply as above applied to a selected route (e.g. when an entire
road is the same as on an Expressway)
-Ability to save areas of this to a file format that can be shared
(so I can get data from someone who lives in and actively maintains an
areas' map data without more out-of-date data from other areas they
collected)

I realize these are probably all way too technically ambitious for a
beginning project to not choke (e.g. unable to release early and often and
build a community), but certainly no one does this stuff now.

-Steve