[OSM-dev] How to earn undying fame

[Tom Hughes]

On 21/06/10 17:19, Kai Krueger wrote:

> My guess would be that Nic meant: Fork (i.e. copy) the git rails_port
> repository. Add the desired functionality and then once done try and get
> it merged back into trunc. So the usual development way to get new
> functionality into the main site.
>
> In case someone would try and do it, it would probably be a good idea to
> make the frontend code as backend agnostic as possible. In that case it
> may even be possible for people to choose which routing engine they want
> to use. Be it gosmore, some other yet to be written opensource routing
> engine, open route service, or even a commercial provider like
> cloudmade's routing.

Well if somebody can provide a backend that returns a GPX or KML or 
something then I'm sure somebody will hack up the rails port to be able 
to display those routes.

Nominatim is the model here - a separate server with an API the rails 
code can call to get what it needs.

Tom

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