[OSM-talk] YOURS now supports route using only cycleroutes - Update

[Nick Black]

Hi Lambertus - YOURS gets more awesome by the day.  I just figured out
how to cut my journey to work by 1km.

Could you add the no-names layer to the GUI?  It would be useful to
spec out the potential for en-route mapping whilst planning a route.

Also, I think I should be able to download the GPX, then load it onto
a Garmin as a route and use it for kind-of routing on the device
whilst cycling.  GPS Babel stalls when I try this though.  Has anyone
tried this out?  If I get it to work I'll write some documentation to
go with the site, if this would be useful?

Nick


On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Lambertus <osm at na1400.info> wrote:
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I'm not sure what is the status and goal of this site, so I don't know
>> how interested you might be in "bug reports", but I just tried to get
>> a fastest car route from Montréal Québec to New Haven, Connecticut, and
>> the route stops in the middle of nowhere.  The "shortest" route seems
>> OK, except it uses way too many little roads.
>>
>> Just for kicks, I also tried the fastest bicycle route from Montréal to
>> Buenos Aires and it similarly stops in the middle of nowhere.
>>
>
> Status:
> - Website: heavily in development
> - Routing engine: don't know (not maintained by me)
>
> Goal:
> Use OpenStreetMap data to make a routing website utilizing as much other
> (opensource) services/application as possible. I develop *only* the glue
> logic; the webinterface.
>
> I'm always interested in bug reports, suggestions or code snippets but I
> don't maintain the routing engine.
>
> Regarding your route from Montreal - New Haven, works for me.
> fastest:
> <http://www.yournavigation.org/?flat=41.308153&flon=-72.928158&tlat=45.531875&tlon=-73.636881&v=motorcar&fast=1&layer=mapnik>
>
> Shortest:
> <http://www.yournavigation.org/?flat=41.308153&flon=-72.928158&tlat=45.531875&tlon=-73.636881&v=motorcar&fast=0&layer=mapnik>
>
> If a route stops somewhere between the start and stop coordinates then
> the routing engine (Gosmore) wasn't able to calculate a complete route
> and returns it's best solution (which might be using a lot of small
> roads even when you chose 'fastest'). In case of Montreal - Buenos Aires
> this is caused there isn't a continuing connecting road between those
> cities. Especially in Central America there is a lot of 'here be
> dragons' land. This effectively prevents routing between North and South
> America.
>
> Although I've put some working long distance examples below there are
> also situations where Gosmore just seems to 'give up' while a route is
> possible. Example: just try to route from Berlin to Madrid (type those
> names to get the coordinates). Gosmore is not able to return a complete
> route but routes from Madrid to Amsterdam and from Amsterdam to Berlin
> (or Madrid - Geneve - Berlin and many other in-betweens) are working
> just fine.
>
> Some other examples:
> Glasgow - London
> <http://www.yournavigation.org/?flat=55.79274&flon=-4.354897&tlat=51.389725&tlon=-0.114174&v=motorcar&fast=1&layer=mapnik>
>
> GB: Northeastern tip - Southwestern tip, 1445km
> <http://www.yournavigation.org/?flat=58.642109&flon=-3.068728&tlat=50.066191&tlon=-5.700649&v=motorcar&fast=1&layer=mapnik>
>
> Europe: Amsterdam - Madrid, 2056km
> <http://www.yournavigation.org/?flat=52.36227&flon=4.798082&tlat=40.409275&tlon=-3.710699&v=motorcar&fast=1&layer=mapnik>
>
> There are also other routing 'problems' (weird route decisions) which
> are difficult to explain, so I'll create a wiki page for that where they
> can be gathered which might help to solve common problems.
>
>
>
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