[OSM-talk] Why quality is more important than routing speed

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Kai Krueger wrote:
> That is an interesting line of argument and gets at the (usual) question of
> how much end user support we want to provide. I.e. do we want to build a
> routing service for anyone to use, or do we want to include routing on the
> main page as an important debugging tool to ensure high quality routing data
> for others to build upon.

Correct - almost. If we want to have routing as a debugging tool then it 
shold probably *not* be prominently placed on the main page but instead 
somewhere else where it is easily accessible to mappers but out of the 
way of the passing visitor.

(Also, having a really high-speed routing option can do a lot for 
debugging, e.g. you can automatically calculate matrices like Andy did 
for the US, and update them continuously.)

Bye
Frederik

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