[Routing] Bringing routing functionality to a web-mapping application - but how?

[Frank Glück]

Hi Daniel,

>OpenLayers is for sure a good choice to display your route.
>
>The advantage of pgRouting is that you are free in defining what you 
>take as "cost".

As "cost"? What do you mean by this?

>And you can do shortest path search in combination with 
>other database queries.

Indeed this is a very important feature for me!

>Other routing approaches often have preprocessed binary formats, which 
>makes them usually faster but less flexible.

Could you please explain that a little bit more? Are the geo-data itselves
in a preprocessed binary format or only the functions?

>What works better for you depends on what you want to achieve.
>
>I would recommend you to take a look at the pgRouting 
>workshops and the tutorials.

I will look for, thanks,
Frank