It is my personal opinion that routing should not be something the foundation will facilitate. Why? Because it will ask a lot of the hardware and it is not part of the OpenStreetMap foundation mission statement.<br><br>There are a lot of routing initiatives with openstreetmap, some are commercial, some are opensource, some are considering to one day become open. Besides that, pgrouting, the postgresql/postgis routing engine is picking up speed and as opposed to gosmore, pgrouting is ready for turn-by-turn navigation, but it also can handle travelingsalesman, A* and other advanced routing techniques. I often asked myself, why are there so many routing initiatives and why aren't they joining forces to create one or two kick-ass routing systems? I cannot figure it out.<br>
<br>A role the OSMF might take is see if there are sponsors particularly interested in providing funds for routing, then facilitate in bringing developers together and let them work something out with only one real demand: That the routing-engine is completely opensource. But as I said before it doesn't fit the OpenStreetMap foundation mission statement in my opinion.<br>
<br>Last time I dug into the gosmore fileformat, I noticed that it doesn't maintain reference to openstreetmap way id's, this makes it impossible to look up streetnames that could generate output like "go straight on 5th av for 3 miles, turn left on central square, go straight for 1 mile on 12th street, turn right on main". gosmore simply generated one linestring. But this was 6 months ago and things might have changed.<br>
<br>Anyway, my answer would be no, and I would prefer if we can look into getting strategic up to steam on more foundation related matters first.<br><br>Kind regards,<br><br>Milo van der Linden<br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2011/1/29 Mikel Maron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikel_maron@yahoo.com">mikel_maron@yahoo.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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We've been asked to look into Routing by Nic Roets, author of Gosmore. On the agenda for next time,<br><div> </div><div>Best<br>Mikel<br><br></div>== Mikel Maron ==<br>+254(0)724899738 @mikel s:mikelmaron<br><span><a href="http://mapkibera.org/" target="_blank">http://mapkibera.org/</a></span><br>
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<br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">----- Forwarded Message ----<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Richard Weait <<a href="mailto:richard@weait.com" target="_blank">richard@weait.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Mikel Maron <<a href="mailto:mikel_maron@yahoo.com" target="_blank">mikel_maron@yahoo.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Nic Roets <<a href="mailto:nroets@gmail.com" target="_blank">nroets@gmail.com</a>>; Kai Krueger
<<a href="mailto:kakrueger@gmail.com" target="_blank">kakrueger@gmail.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sat, January 29, 2011 5:46:36 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Routing on OSM<br>
</font><br><br>As I understand it Nic has access to dev and is running a router there.<br><br><a href="http://nroets.dev.openstreetmap.org/demo/index.html?layers=B000FTFTT" target="_blank">http://nroets.dev.openstreetmap.org/demo/index.html?layers=B000FTFTT</a><br>
<br>SWG involvement might extend as far as "Does OSMF want routing on our<br>hardware?" We looked at that a while back but not since formalizing<br>SWG. We should probably put it on the agenda some time and take a run<br>
at it.<br><br>If OSMF wants to run routing services the following questions likely<br>belong to TWG:<br><br>- Which routing engines meet our requirements for stability and performance?<br>- What infrastructure is required to run it?<br>
- What will be required to manage growth of
that service?<br>- How should we implement routing?<br></div></div>
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