[Routing] routing library comparison?

[Florian Lohoff]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:16:54PM -0700, Yang wrote:
> I'm trying to find a good routing library for my application code .
> 
> I looked at the routing section of OSM:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing
> 
> 
> among those listed, 4 have fairly recent developments:
> GraphHopper
> Navit
> Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)
> Routino
> 
> what are their relative strengths? I would like to use Java, so that leaves
> only graph hopper for me. but if quality/performance varies a lot, I could
> try hooking up java and C++

I like Navit a lot - Its pure C - very modular and IMHO very low
overhead. I hacked around it a bit as i was looking for using it as an 
QA tool for OSM Data.

I have the feeling though that real Navit development has stalled for at
least 3-4 years.

Using it as a SatNav was impossible last time i looked. Address search
was complicated to impossible, taking a wrong turn caused Navit to
request a U turn for a very long time instead of providing an alternate
route.

But my experience is probably a bit old ...

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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