[Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.

john whelan jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 5 02:02:07 GMT 2011


The subject of people having problems routing because connections weren't
made has been brought up before.

Tried http://keepright.ipax.at ?

I have, it got really depressing the number of roads and footpaths that just
weren't connected.

CANVEC at least is connected to other CANVEC roads so my personal view is if
you want routing either accept a road system based on CANVEC or wait for
CommonMap.

Cheerio John

On 4 March 2011 18:54, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> 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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