[OSM-talk] Osm.org Routing Demo

[Nic Roets]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:56 PM, woll <woll at 2-islands.com> wrote:
>
> Is the idea that this demo will become the 'official' OSM routing system?
> From the intro post, I can't quite make out if it is going to appear on the
> OSM home page, or it is a 'private' demo.

The sys-admins must decide and that excludes me and the author of
YOURS (Lambertus Ijsselstein, who must be thrilled that NL kicked
Brazil out of the WC. Die Kaap is weer Hollands !).

The sys-admins must in turn take into account the wishes of the
community and the recent uservoice survey indicated that getting
routing on osm.org is important.

> I know very little about the details/history of the various routing systems
> that use OSM, and nothing of the background to this functionality appearing,
> but why choose YOURS/Gosmore instead of any of the other "non-commercial"
> OSM-based routing systems?

AFAIK, Gosmore is the only FOSS router capable of meeting the
requirements of the community with reasonable hardware:
1. Planet wide coverage.
2. Staying (reasonably) up-to-date
3. Supporting turn-restrictions, destination ways and barriers,
otherwise people will have no incentive to tag them.

> For example, I have used another OSM-based router that already has good
> routing instructions and loads of options, so would appear to also be a good
> contender. I'm not advocating a particular one, but would be interested in
> hearing a bit about the background of why YOURS was chosen, so I can learn a
> bit about such things!
>
> Thanks.
>
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