[OSM-talk] Routing Applications

[Michael Reichert]

Hi,

Am 2015-06-17 um 05:33 schrieb Hans De Kryger:
> Why do OSRM & OpenRoutingService compete against each other instead of
> joining resources and combining efforts to make the best routing service
> out there? Am i missing something?

There are differences in history between these two projects. ORS
(OpenRouteService) is a project started by University of Heidelberg as a
closed-source project in 2010 (?). It was dead between 2012 and 2014,
i.e. no data update, no bugfixing because it is a university project.

Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) was started by Dennis Luxen who
gained a PhD at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Afterwards he worked
for Mapbox which now contributes much to OSRM.

Summarized: OSRM is a commercial open source project and ORS is a
university project.

Best regards

Michael




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