[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap routing service

[Lambertus]

Your suggestions are great, it would be nice to be able to classify ways 
with properties like e.g. nice scenery, low traffic, smooth surface, 
etc. Also allowing to choose if you want to take ferry's into account 
when calculating a route as well as public transport would be awsome. 
But all of this stuff means a lot of work that has to be done on the 
routing engine. I'm sure Nic Roets (the author of Gosmore, the routing 
engine) will have stuff like this on his todo list already but can 
really use some extra hands for all this ;-)

Bjoern Buerger wrote:
 > Lambertus wrote:
 >> A few hours ago a new version of the OpenStreetMap Routing Service 
has come
 >> online. I think is has evolved enough to go public 'officially'...
 >
 > :-D this is very nice :-D
 >
 > Now, a really cool feature would be a pdf/png export like
 > the one on openstreetmap.org.
 >
 > Other things, I had in mind, wenn fiddling around with your
 > page:
 >
 > There are different types of cyclists, so a "avoid trunk
 > roads" or "I like cycling near waterways" would probably
 > be nice for more "recreational cyclists", whereas the
 > current setting is very nice for the "I just want to
 > go somewhere ... NOW" aproach :-)
 >
 > Example: Your Service did a very good Job on my
 > daily route to work: All three routes (car, bike,
 > pedestrian) where absolutely useful (esp. if
 > you are just going/driving to work)
 >
 > 
<http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/~lambertus/routing-world/?flat=52.481245&flon=9.281903&tlat=52.275324&tlon=10.524424&v=motorcar&fast=1>
 >
 > However, the main bicyle route is in fact a quite busy
 > "Bundesstraße" without cycle lanes on some parts. It
 > can be very uncomfortable, especiale if there are many
 > transporters on the road. Someone, just "going on a
 > ride to Hildesheim", would definitely use some of
 > the less busy roads parallel to the "B1".
 >
 > But if you do a route, say, from Braunschweig to Kassel:
 >
 > 
<http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/~lambertus/routing-world/?flat=52.481245&flon=9.281903&tlat=52.275324&tlon=10.524424&v=motorcar&fast=1>
 >
 > ... the aporach for a cyclist, just going for Holiday
 > would definitely be: Stick to the Rivers (Weser, Fulda).
 > The plottet bicyle route goes along very busy north/south
 > trunk roads. This is no convenient place for bike,
 > unfortnunatley.
 >
 > I have no Idea, how such thing could be taken
 > into account, when calculating a route. But
 > maybe my thoughts are useful to you :-)
 >
 > Anyway:
 >
 > Lambertus, thanks a lot - you made my day :-)
 >
 > Greetings,
 > Bjørn