[Talk-nz] Routing on OSM data in NZ

[Eliot Blennerhassett]

Hi Byron,

On 2/09/20 9:46 am, Byron Cochrane wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> New to this list. 
> Been involved in OSM in very light ways for for many years, but not for
> the past several.
> 
> I am looking to do some NZ nationwide spatial analysis that requires
> reasonably accurate routable streetmap data for the whole country. I
> would be using pgrouting.
> Last I was involved, say 7 years ago, this would have be a big ask of NZ
> OSM data. How it the OSM data now? 

IMO it is pretty good now.  About 3 years ago a couple of us added the
majority of street addresses from LINZ to OSM so routing to an address
works pretty well (time for an update I guess, I'll write about that
separately)

> Is it up to the task? How would it
> compare to other available solutions (commercial or otherwise)?

Sorry I don't know. If you come to (or already have) any conclusions,
please report back.

regards

Eliot