[Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.

Richard Weait richard at weait.com
Fri Mar 4 23:54:06 GMT 2011


Dear talk-ca,

There is a new secret demo of routing on OSM data for Canada.  The
demo server could go away without notice, and it doesn't update data
regularly, but it seems to be blindingly fast.  Also, it only works
for part of Europe.

Except it secretly works for part of Canada too!

So far, I'm using this to test routing connectivity for the Trans
Canada, and for major roads in my area.  So far, i see that there is a
continuity problem in Eastern Nova Scotia and I hear that there is a
problem near the Manitoba / Ontario border.  In both cases if you try
a route, it looks funny or fails to route.  Looking funny is often
either a route that goes the long way 'round, or goes backwards, then
forward, or past the destination then back.  The fix is to go find the
overlapping nodes that aren't connected, or the missing bridge or
backwards oneway tag, and fix them.  Great fun!  It should help find
import issues where we haven't properly stitched imports to existing
data.

Again, this router isn't yet updating often, so maybe we can put
things we find and fix in this thread, so we don't chase our tails?
Then maybe ask for an update after the weekend?

What do you think?  Feel like doing some secret routing repair?  ;-)

And thanks to Frederik at Geofabrik, for adding Canada to this demo.
This is pretty cool.

Best regards,
Richard



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