[OSM-dev] Cloudmade routing for OSM rails_port site.

[Lambertus]

No doubt CM and other candidates would volunteer to maintain the box. I 
would anyway, but providing a box is too much.

Namefinder is at times, let's say, troublesome but only a small part of 
the whole routing process and therefore doesn't stop usage and 
development of a routing service if it's not perfect.

Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Andy Allan wrote:
>> That's what we're looking for feedback on - what do you think?
> 
> Assuming we're not going to host an open-source routing service on an OSM
> box (which we're not unless someone supplies the box and volunteers to
> maintain it, I guess), we'd need to do the "Different routing services are
> available" thing - and the precedent is that we'd do it in a similar way to
> the tile source selection.
> 
> Very very roughly, that might involve replacing the car/walk/cycle selector
> with a drop-down menu:
> 
>     - Albert's Routing Service
>     - CloudMade (bicycle)
>     - CloudMade (car)
>     - CloudMade (walking)
>     - OpenRouteService
>     - YOURS
>     - Zarquon Bicycle Directions
> 
> ...assuming that all these services had a common API for such requests.
> 
> But IMO any effort in this area would be best devoted to fixing Namefinder.
> A decent namefinder is a prerequisite of a routing service anyway.
> 
> cheers
> Richard