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

[Anton Patrushev]

>> As "cost"? What do you mean by this?
>
> He is saying that pgRouting has an interface (API) for changing the speed
> associated with any particular segment, when calculating the fastest route
> and / or the length of any individual segment.

Not only speed or length!

If you have weather data, you can change cost according to weather
conditions, for example. Or cost can be a real cost in case of toll
roads. Or even beauty of the path for tourist applications. Or number
of pubs along the way :)

Anton.