[Routing] comparison of navigation-apps

[Eddy Petrișor]

2009/3/20  <marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com>:
> On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:49:07 +0200, Eddy Petrișor
> <eddy.petrisor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I started a comparison of the major navigation/routing-applications
>>> used with OSM. The Routing -page just got too cramped and a simple
>>> list of names of dozens of apps helps noone.
>>
>> I agree, I have been looking for this info for a while now.
>
>> Nice, but I suspect is better to list applications vertically and
>> features horizontally, since is easier to add a new template line than
>> to modify each line to add a single app. I think this point is already
>> proven by the addition of the gpsmid app which is lower on the page,
>> but not in the table.
>
> I don't suspect we get enough information to get more then just
> the major applications into the table at all. Anyway we will have many

The way the table is arranged now, it even discourages possible new
applications to be added.

> more features then applications. This the table would grow terribly wide.

I think this layout is better:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software

If too wide can be split in two parts while adding a new app is still as simple
as adding a new line/two lines.

> If you want you can try it out on the talk-page and we can see.

I'll try it.

> I may be wrong in my assumption.

I like people who take into account the possibility they might be wrong. OTOH,
*I* might be wrong.

-- 
Regards,
EddyP
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