[OSM-talk] Routing on osm.org

[Janko Mihelić]

2015-02-16 21:19 GMT+01:00 Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl>:

>
> My first quick test in Kent yielded a route (about 6 miles) which while
> perfectly viable, no-one in their right mind would take. But that is
> probably more of a quirk of OSRM than anything else.
>

That's the beauty, you can try out other engines as well. For example,
Mapquest has a big advantage, it takes into account turn restrictions when
"via" is a way. OSRM just ignores those turn restrictions. That means that
OSRM will rote through U-turns which are not allowed.

Janko
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