[OSM-talk] YOURS is great! ...

[Lambertus]

ビカス ヤダワ (vikas yadav) wrote:
> I had been busy mapping my area neat the capital of india past 3 months.
> The next thing I needed was a good routing engine.
> and finally YOURS is doing just that.
> 
Great to hear that. But YOURS isn't the routing engine, it is just a 
website that glues some cool pieces of 3rd party software together. One 
of those cool pieces of software is Gosmore, the routing engine.

> I checked my maps and discovered lots of problems in my area (like two 
> oneways in same direction,etc).
 >
That is one of the main goals of YOURS (and Gosmore as well) and it's 
great to see it put to good use.

> The edition of planet on the site is dated Nov13 which is very old.
> 
The Gosmore database is updated once a week, so imho November 13 isn't 
very old. Although I understand that it's hard waiting for your edits to 
show up.

> Now I wanted to have a YOURS server on my ubuntu. so i can recompile a 
> short part and verify it quickly.
> for that i hunted the source of YOURS everywhere but could not find any 
> public code.
 >
It isn't public yet because I don't think it's the right time for that. 
There's no license notice in the code yet and the code is rather sloppy 
actually. YOURS currently aims at functionality, not coding excellence.

> I also downloaded and tried gosmore on my winxp (never detects a PAK 
> file) and even on ubuntu7 (does not draw anything).
 >
You need to create the PAK file before you can use Gosmore. The process 
of creating the PAK file is described on the Gosmore wiki page, but 
under linux the command is:
bzcat planet-latest.osm.bz2 | gosmore rebuild

But processing the whole planet requires a lot of disk space and a 64bit 
machine. Countries can be processed on a 32bit machine usually (Except 
the USA probably).

> Im so excited with YOURS that i badly need to fix my all maps so that 
> the engine can run good.
 >
Haha :-) Patience, young Jedi...