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

[Stefan de Konink]

Nic Roets schreef:
>> 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..

I totally agree. As MSc student myself the importance is focussed on 
writing 'papers' and actually not about producing anything 'useful' in 
sense of software that you have used for generating results.

I'm happy that I'm in two groups that actually famous for treir open 
source implementations. So from that point of view I'm happy to ignore 
the rest of the uni.


>> 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).

I think some things lead to innovation, I cannot say it enough. 
OpenStreetMap design JOSM etc. is STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID, I'm not 
talking about the tool. The tool is ok. But it is as now 3(?) years 
already possible to just generate and update tracks from nmea data, 
under an academic license. Mapgenerator is happy is providing you the 
resulting map.

Merkator is now the first tool that PARTLY support automatic generation. 
It is sad, very sad. The reason why some devs (we don't say names here) 
don't like automatic generation is because 'street names still need to 
be entered manually' they forget that this is also the case if one draw 
the road first.


Stefan