[OSM-talk] Routing Applications

[Florian Lohoff]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 05:55:18PM +0100, Philip Barnes wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 09:00 +0000, Janko Mihelić wrote:
> > If you ask me, they are all in their infancy. Non of these routing
> > services even route right. In a turn restriction the "via" role can
> > be a way. Neither OSRM, ORS or GraphHopper knows how to restrict
> > that, and that's IMHO one of the crucial parts of a routing engine.
> > When one of them starts routing right, than we can talk about picking
> > a winner service. Right now only MapQuest knows how to route.
> > Janko
> The other common thing that is missing from routing instructions is
> support for mini-roundabouts, tomtom certainly don't do this so it is
> something that OSM routing could pull ahead on.

mini_roundabouts are a clear mis-design in OSM - I avoid and dont use
them at all. There is no way without heavy preprocessing that a router
can create a circular path from a point/node.

Instead we should have had a tag which states that the center of the
roundabout can be ridden/driven over.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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