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blanco5

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Registered: 2010-12-08

Posts: 7

Add straught lines to maps.

Hi,

I need to open an OSM map, view it offline and then add POIs and straight lines between those POIs. Any idea on how to do it? I thought of Travelling Salesman but you can't add straight lines and JOSM, but the only lines are streets and it's not a good program to view maps. Any ideas?  I guess I could use JOSM and model the lines between points as streets/paths.

Thanks.

SK53

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Registered: 2009-01-11

Posts: 705

Re: Add straught lines to maps.

I'd suggest something like Quantum GIS and add an additional vector layer. I'm intrigued by what you mean by a straight line: do you mean great circle lines, a rhumb line, or straight lines on a particular projection such as OSGB? It seems to me that you will need to think about which projection to use.

blanco5

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Registered: 2010-12-08

Posts: 7

Re: Add straught lines to maps.

Thanks. I want to display an OSM map and be able to add POI icons and lines (that appear as straight lines in the map, as if I wanted to add a straight road to a map) and display/store those lines.

stephan75

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Registered: 2008-05-28

Posts: 2,918

Re: Add straught lines to maps.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenLayers seems to be one possible solution for your aim, because:

http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/ --> search for "line" or "draw"