[Talk-GB] Route planner using UK OSM data

[Peter Miller]

On 23 Mar 2009, at 19:31, Chris Andrew wrote:

> Andrew,
>
> Would you consider the GPL licence?
>
> Name ideas:
>
> "Tora"- The Open Routing Algorithm?
>
> "Aora"- Andrew's......
>
> What's it written in, maybe that could help with the name....PyOra,  
> for example?
>
> Just a thought.

A name... Who is this project aimed at? You need to answer that one  
before choosing the name. If is a bunch of clever back-end code that  
can be used by anyone wanting to put a journey planner together then  
you need a name that works for techies, otherwise you have the much  
harder task of building a pubic facing brand which will probably need  
marketing and other stuff to make it work.

Assuming you are producing something for the techie community then it  
needs to be memorable and relatively unique. Avoid a phrase that just  
says what is is because there are going to be too many of those! If  
the project is good and gets used then the name will become well known  
so the most important thing for a techie project is that it is good.  
It is also important to build a community that can engage with it, so  
do provide a way for people to engage with the project - a wiki page  
for describing the project and for feedback and suggestions seems to  
work well and of course making it open source. Is also takes a lot of  
work.

Not sure how Chris arrived at Tora. It sounds nice, however it seems  
to already be being used for something similar?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporally-ordered_routing_algorithm



Regards,




Peter



>
>
> Chris.
>
> 2009/3/23 Andrew M. Bishop <amb at gedanken.demon.co.uk>:
>> "Tim Waters (chippy)" <chippy2005 at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>> I decided that what would be fun to implement is a routing  
>>>> algorithm
>>>> that can find the best (shortest or quickest) route between any two
>>>> OSM highway nodes. I know that there are other routing algorithms
>>>> available but this started as an intellectual exercise so I  
>>>> developed
>>>> my own.  It seemed to work so I added a fancy web front end to it  
>>>> and
>>>> put it on a server.
>>
>>> This is really neat. it's good to see a few excellent routers  
>>> occuring
>>> because of OSM.
>>> I think your one is quite powerful for the ability to customise the
>>> weighting, nice!
>>>
>>> Also, any plans to release the source for the router available so we
>>> can play too?
>>
>> Yes, if people find it useful then I have no problems with releasing
>> the source code.  I need to tidy up a few things and write a README
>> file, but it was always planned that a release would occur if it
>> worked.
>>
>> One thing that it is missing is a good name - I ought to get that
>> sorted out as well before releasing it.
>>
>> --
>> Andrew.
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Andrew M. Bishop                             amb at gedanken.demon.co.uk
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