[Routing] Request for help: libosmscout

[Andreas Volz]

Am 14 Mar 2010 17:43:54 +0100 schrieb Tim Teulings:

> Hello!
> 
> I'm still looking for people interested in helping me with further 
> development libosmscout (http://libosmscout.sf.net). The library 
> steadily improves, but more people could simply get more work done 
> faster ;-)
> 
> libosmscout is a C++ library, that implements offline map drawing and 
> routing based on OSM data. It does this by import an existing *.osm
> file and generating a binary, plattform independent file based
> database and offering an high level API on top of this database.
> 
> The main target group of the library are people that are interested
> in developing applications based on OSM and that do not want to
> directly access available data using existing online APIs. Such
> applications of course also include offline navigation software but
> of course other, more specialized applications are possible.
> 
> Recent discussions with interested people however have shown that 
> libosmscout has a much broader target group. Since the library
> consists of separate components for import, dataaccess, routing and
> map drawing, other usage senarios are also possible and I'm also
> looking for people that want to improve libosmscout in that direction:
> 
> * Generating stylable (paper) maps
> * Using it as a small desktop local caching tile server with very
> light infrastructure requirements.
> * Using it to tests and compare different routing alogrithm (that can 
> share pre- and postprocessing and thus safe the developer the hassle
> to fiddle around with *.osm file format and generating a good textual 
> routing description).
> * Use the internal data structures and map drawing for online-data
> API based map drawing
> * Statistical analysis and data test suite
> 
> libosmscout currently depends on libxml and libcairo (, but even that 
> could be abstracted ;-)) and thus should work on various platforms.
> 
> If you are interested take a look at libosmscout.sf.net for further 
> details (and a video) or simply contact me.

Hello Tim,

as you know I tried your library some weeks ago and I think it's really
good. I integrated it into my navigation software and use it since this
time. Currently I'm busy with developing some other part of my
software so I couldn't spend more time into libosmscout at the moment.

For me speed is much more important than new features. :-)

But I could only suggest more people to give libosmscout a try! It's a
nice software that has much potential.

regards
	Andreas