[OSM-dev] Announcing the immediate availability of the Open Source Routing Machine

[Mike N.]

> This first release gives you fast routes and there are many things that
> are going to follow in the coming months, i.e. turn directions have not
> yet been implemented and does not obey turn restrictions. Also, the
> extraction of the road network is still rudimentary.

The implication is that the code in its present state performs automotive 
routing.  What is your vision for other types of routing such as pedestrian 
and bicycle?  The gold standard would seem to be the not-open-source 
OpenRouteService.org , which does a good job with pedestrian routing, based 
on brief tests on European data.   I can't test it on my own data in the US.

   All other route services I've tried do not give reasonable routes when I 
try to point them to my data for pedestrian routing.