[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

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> This also seems much faster than when I was looking at it yesterday.
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There have been no speed optimizations (apart from the marker placement 'lag' bug). The server is doing a lot of other things beside hosting the routing service. Also the Gazetteer (Namefinder) service has it's ups and downs...

For a world-wide route service the server has quite modest specs: virtual machine having 2 cores from a Quadcore Xeon, 2 GB RAM and 60 GB storage on a SAN of which about 6 GB is used by the routing database. There's just no comparison with Google or even openrouteservice.org...