[Routing] CloudMade http API for OSM based routing

[marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com]

Looks interesting.
It would be usable for me if it also gave the OSM-NodeID in addition to
Lat+Lon.
Then it would be usable to allow routing over maps that have not been
downloaded
yet. (Use-case: User wants to drive somewhere but does not yet have the map
for
that area, search for destination works because of a fallback to the
NameFinder.
Routing works too due to online-routing and then downloading a corridor
around
the returned route and calculating the route again to optimize for the
metric
chosen by the user.)

Marcus

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:12:07 -0700 (PDT), Mykola <mpaliyenko at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I have not found in this list any announcements about routing services
> released recently by CloudMade and thus want to share information about
it
> API documentation is available here
> http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects/show/routing-http-api
> There are also Python, Ruby, Java apis for this service available
> http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects
> 
> Couple of words about routing features
> - It is fast, queries are within several seconds even for a very long
> routes.
>
(http://maps.cloudmade.com/?lat=49.894634&lng=12.216797&zoom=5&directions=52.482780222078205,13.2275390625,48.980216985374994,2.5048828125&travel=car&styleId=1)
> 
> - Supports car, foot and bicycle routes
> - Supports OSM turn restrictions
> - Data (routing graph) is updated weekly, there are plans to do it more
> frequently.
> 
> It is free now (requires registering API key), but this might change in
the
> future, pricing is not yet defined.
> 
> Please post feedback about the API in this thread or to the 
> http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects CloudMade Developers Zone 
> 
> Regards, Mykola
>