[OSM-talk] Neat routing demo

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Donnerstag 27 September 2007, Andy Allan wrote:
> On 9/26/07, Jon Bright <jon at siliconcircus.com> wrote:
> > Frederik Ramm wrote:
> > > So we're quite far away from anything that would make your life easier
> > > in that department. But it's not impossible either.
> >
> > The alternative for me, of course, is just to preprocess the ways in my
> > own DB.  Also not impossible.
>
> I would think that in the same way osm2pgsql preprocesses the main db
> to remove all the routing data, it's likely the best approach in this
> case is to preprocess the db to optimising routing - walking the ways
> between junctions and simplifying the graph to create junctions
> connected with weighted interconnects.

I would love to see osm2pqsql also filling the apropriate tables for routing. 
This way for example GpsDrive (and others) wouldn't need any special extra 
tool and database to also do routing on top of the map rendering.

PS.: we can move this discussion to our new mailinglist 
routing at openstreetmap.org

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Joerg