[OSM-talk] WikiProject_FLOSS (was: OSM composer not open source?)

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/5/2 Niklas Cholmkvist <towardsoss at gmail.com>:
>> I added an Introduction at
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_FLOSS . I didn't put very
>
> The most important reason (for me at least) to write OSM related
> FLOSS, is increase the rate at which tags are standardized. For
> example, if contributors find that their favorite router generates bad
> routes, they look for bugs in the underlying data. If it generates
> good routes, they'll move on. If that router happens to be proprietary
> it will mean that some of the data is, in effect locked up in a
> proprietary standard. If the source is published, then the OSM
> community can at least look at the what variables influences the
> router and aim for compatibility. And if you think that contributors
> only look at the wiki, look at this discussion:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Gosmore#Illegal_Routing

added the idea of a routing api that would talk to the different
router and to make them interoperable, is that ok?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_FLOSS#Project_open_routing_api