[OSM-talk] Osm.org Routing Demo

[John Smith]

On 4 July 2010 14:15, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 July 2010 04:21, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Many users are only interested in the local city and not too worried about
>> having the latest version of the map.  People have used three year old
>> printed maps quite happily for years and for foot, public transport and
>> cycling a cached map on the device works fine most of the time.  Render with
>> something like Maperitive and you don't need an Internet connection.  Run it
>> on a tablet and you have the ideal tourist map that can show you how to get
>> from here to there without having a 3G data plan.
>>
>> I'm not saying its perfect for everyone but it may work for some and thus
>> lower the demand on the servers.
>
> There is already plenty of tools for doing offline rendering, the
> point of this was to put rendering on the OSM website...
>

rendering/routing...