[OSM-talk] Cycle route planning using OSM

Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany) openstreetmap at ostertag.name
Tue Apr 3 13:39:57 BST 2007


On Tuesday 03 April 2007 12:16, Styno wrote:
> Cycling specific topics popup on this ML now and then. The discussions
> die slowly [1] often without having made new agreements, perhaps a ML
> isn't the proper place. But also the proposed features pages in the wiki
> [2] are not very productive on subjects that do not attract a large
> audience. I agree that OSM needs some additional mapping rules aimed at
> cyclists, hikers etc. in order to make efficient routing possible.
>
> Currently I'm investigating how to implement a platform that can be used
> to provide (turn-by-turn) route planning for both online and offline use
> specifically aimed at cycling (for now). Mostly because mostly (all)
> route planners target cars and cycling specific sites only offer static
> data. So far I'm thinking of using RoadNav [3] as the back-end because
> it is (the only?) OpenSource (GPL) project that supports turn-by-tun
> routing and has basic support for OSM. As the user interface I'm
> thinking of using Opera for handheld devices because it has good SVG
> support. Another project that could profit from the tiles at home work
> might be GpsDrive [4], but this project doesn't support turn-by-turn
> routing and development seems to have stopped.

Speaking of GpsDrive ...
Yes we're pretty much behind in routing and Vector maps. But hopefully we'll 
catch up some time in the near future. We are currently on our yearly 
programming Session Weekend. So we did a lot concerning GpsDrive this 
Weekend. Mapnik maps for example can already be displayed in gpsdrive. And 
some osm-vectordata can already be used in the developers Version. Hopefully 
soon I'll post some more screen-shots on my website. 
If anyone wants to try feel free to get the current svn Version or the 
development snapshots from http://www.ostertag.name/.
Since we're trying to get to our next stage a stable release we'll put out 
gpsdrive-2.10pre4 pretty soon. So any hints to bugs improvements are welcome.

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Jörg (Germany, Munich)

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