[Routing] generalized routing format

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Thu Oct 16 11:17:31 BST 2008


Hi,

> Finding a simple, easy to understand format that can already be used
> for routing but does not loose information yet. This can easily be
> used as an intermediate format but tools have the ability to already
> use it directly.
>
> * indexed
> * marking or separately indexing
> ** ways that are drivable (highway, cycleway,.. but not river, forest,
> power-lines,..)
> ** nodes that are of order >2 if you only consider drivable roads
> ** marking or somehow prefering a fixed set of attributes that are  
> most
> important for routing
>    (e.g. "highway", "maxspeed", "name", "access")

Yes, something like that was what I had in mind. I didn't want to  
simply set something up without input from the routing community  
though - wanted to avoid doing someting that nobody can use in the  
end;-)

Bye
Frederik

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