[Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] [Announcement] Support added for route waypoints in YOURS

[Lambertus]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:00:46 -0400, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com>
wrote:
> Last time I
> looked at this, you were only routing in Europe.
That must have been a long time ago. Yournavigation.org does worldwide
routing since june 2008. ;-)

>  So thank you for
> adding Canada and USA to your service.  To celebrate, I asked for a
> route
> 
> From: Museum of Modern Art,
> New York, NY
> 
> To: a Tim Hortons coffee shop in Hespeler Ontario, where an OSM meetup
> is scheduled tonight.
> 
> and yournavigation.org returns a perfectly reasonable[1] route of
> 
> Points: 6344
> Length: 798.5 km
> 
> Congratulations and thanks again.  All of this wonderful code and a
> BSD license?  Fantastic.
> 
I hope it didn't take too long? Routing in the USA might be all wrong as
the Tiger data isn't really suitable for routing (which you probably know),
but perhaps the Tiger cleanup has progressed far enough to start producing
reasonable results. Great to hear it.

> Best regards,
> Richard
Thanks for your kind words.


> 
> 
> [1]
>
http://www.yournavigation.org/?flat=40.779421&flon=-73.963511&tlat=43.418387&tlon=-80.325603&v=motorcar&fast=1&layer=mapnik
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Lambertus<osm at na1400.info> wrote:
>>
>> Hereby I would like to announce that YOURS now has the capability to use
>> the long awaited "via points" (waypoints) in a route. The code for this
>> feature has been contributed by Philip Homburg. Web design is still
>> rather
>> crude, but that will hopefully improve over time.
>>
>> Last week a few other tweaks have also been implemented: the routing API
>> can return the route in geoJSON format as well as KML, the GPX export is
>> no
>> longer limited to a few hundred nodes, a JS bug has been fixed for IE
6.0
>> and multiple API versions can live alongside each other which gives 3rd
>> party API users plenty of time to migrate between the different
versions.
>>
>> So please try out the use of waypoints on:
>> <http://www.yournavigation.org/>. I hope you will enjoy this new
>> function.
>>
>> The source code of YOURS is available under the BSD license:
>>
<http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/routing/yours/branches/version-1.0-via/>
>>
>> The YOURS project page: <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/YOURS>
>>
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