[OSM-dev] Suggestion about design of OSM data structure (take out segments)

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemeD.net
Fri Jul 27 16:29:17 BST 2007


Chien Nguyen Khac wrote:

> I am not talking about other routing application. I am talking  
> about osm routing application itself. If it is easy to implement  
> routing on current osm data then why osm still not have routing  
> feature displaying in the web brower like google map and yahoo map?
> [...]
> What is the main purpose of osm project?

We've had this discussion in the past few days (on talk@, I think),  
and it seems to be generally agreed that the main purpose is to  
collect free geodata for the world - not just to build a better  
consumer webmapping site.

So there's your answer as to why OSM doesn't have a routing feature.

cheers
Richard
(who also wants to get rid of segments)




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