[Talk-in] Delhi: OSM for navigation

[Gora Mohanty]

On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 22:17:17 +0530
ヴィカス ヤダワ (vikas yadav) <mevikas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Welcome pal!
> 
> Im Vikas from south west gurgaon.
> I have been working along with gosmore and improving quality
> (beside regular surveys).
> But there seems to be a hard hurdle for general routing logic to
> apply on indian streets.
[...]

Not sure where you feel that the hurdle is. Please elaborate, so
that we can try to eliminate it.
o Routing software (gosmore, etc.) is already available, and we
  have Python/Django software that uses the Dijkstra (or, however
  you spell his name) shortest-path algorithm to find all optimal
  routes for a set of locations, and paths. We would be willing to
  open source this. So, this is hardly the roadblock.
o Where I feel that the problem lies is in the quality of the path
  data, like having every street corner mapped, so that the software
  can calculate best routes, and alternative ones.
o Even more interesting is getting tonnes of realtime travel data
  from GPS devices, which would let one calculate optimal routes
  based on travel times.

We really need to have another OSM/GPS meeting for Delhi/NCR based
folk.

Regards,
Gora