Your use of “can” is doing quite a bit of heavy lifting there, hence this whole other thread. I have three places where I might like to do something like this:
- One uses a spatial database, so I could have a go at detecting “X near and going in the same direction as Y”, but see here for the challenges
- Another has no database but does use TileMaker which does have “X within Y” capabilities, but I’d need to construct the Y on the fly to use those.
- The third doesn’t have any spatial capabilities; it’s just using
osm-tags-transform. I guess that I could dump everything into a database, do some spatial comparisons there, and fetch it back out again, and then create the map, but it’s (a) a major rewrite and (b) going to slow things down massively.
In short, I’m not likely to do any of these three any time soon, and saying “software can X” is overlooking that someone has to actually sit down and make it do X.