blog/data/2010-07-18-osm-routing.txt

   1 Title: OpenStreetmap one step closer to having routing on its front page
   2 Tags: english, web, kart
   3 Date: 2010-07-18 16:45
   4
   5 <p>Thanks to
   6 <ahref="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Opengeodata/~3/wUTCzDZk3lc/project-of-the-week-which-way-home">todays
   7 opengeodata blog entry</a>, I just discovered that the
   8 OpenStreetmap.org site have gotten
   9 <a href="http://nroets.dev.openstreetmap.org/demo/index.html?layers=B000FTFTT">support
  10 for calculating routes</a>.  The support is still experimental and
  11 only available from the development server, until more experience is
  12 gathered on the user interface and any scalability issues.</p>
  13
  14 <p>Earlier, routing using the OpenStreetmap.org data was provided by
  15 <a href="http://maps.cloudmade.com/">Cloudmade</a>, but having it on
  16 the main page is required to make everyone aware of the issue.  I've
  17 had people reject Openstreetmap.org as a viable alternative for them
  18 because the front page lacked routing support, and I hope their needs
  19 will be catered for when routing show up on the www.openstreetmap.org
  20 front page.</p>