[Routing] [OSM-talk] www.OpenRouteService.org now supports Bicycle Routing with OSM Data

[Nic Roets]

> your comments will only lead to stuff like openrouteservice.org
> being developed totally behind closed doors - the software I wrote

Academic research is so screwed up..

> And as for unnecessary duplication - most good things in OSM have
> been invented/programmed three or four times over. It's almost
> a tradition.

Three or four times before the inception of OSM (Garmin, Tom Tom,
Destinator etc)

More than 4 times in the open source community (RoadNav, NavIt, etc).

At least if we do it once properly with PD sources, there's a chance
that we will encourage all these little shareware projects now
springing up to build on top of instead of from scratch. E.g.
http://www.gpstuner.com/