[OSRM-talk] Huge difference in needed time computation OSRM / Google Maps

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2014-03-24 20:01 GMT+01:00 Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk>:

> It may be possible, but one difficulty is the router would have to work
> out whether the road is rural or urban which I imagine is not easy,
>


it is actually impossible, at most you could make a good guess, but you
can't automatically detect whether you are in or out of town, as this is
(at least in many countries) regulated by signs and not (directly) by
buildings or residents.

cheers,
Martin
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osrm-talk/attachments/20140325/8024a108/attachment.html>