[OSM-talk] Lightning fast car routing built on OpenStreetMap data, with draggable routes

[Philip Barnes]

It does not work for me, just says timed out and if I enter say
Inverness into one of the boxes and hit show nothing happens.

I can see your routes by clicking the links however. The Inverness to
Athens route does seem a bit bizarre. Not what I would have expected.  

Crossing the Pennines on the A66 is strange, continuing on the M6 is the
more normal route. Also crossing from the M2 to M20 to get to Dover is
strange, for a car the M2-A2 directly to Dover is quicker. Most routing
software does seem to prefer the tunnel over the ferry.  

http://open.mapquest.co.uk, which also uses OSM mapping provides more
normal routing, certainly for the UK stage. Although it does seem to
struggle with routing in South Eastern Europe.

Google takes you through Italy and across the ferry to Greece, am not
sure of the relative merits of this route, over travelling overland but
it does start to ring alarm bells of real border crossings and the need
for additional insurance.

  

On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 00:54 +0100, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
> On 03/17/2012 12:33 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
> > Spotted in @openstreetmap's Twitter feed... I don't remember having ever
> > used a routing service that fast. It is apparently tuned for car
> > routing... And that's all I can say since the Karlsruher Institut für
> > Technologie whose homepage is linked from the results panel doesn't seem
> > to say anything about it. If anyone has further information about this
> > exciting service...
> 
> The service is of course at http://map.project-osrm.org/ as you may have
> guessed from the examples in my initial message.
> 
> It has been mentioned by about everyone on Twitter
> (https://bitly.com/pGcc3J+)... I'm surprised there has been no
> conversation about it here.
> 
> For news about the project, you may follow
> https://twitter.com/ProjectOSRM
> 
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