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 <a href="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, the routing I knew about using the OpenStreetmap.org data
  15 was provided by <a href="http://maps.cloudmade.com/">Cloudmade</a>,
  16 but having it on the main page is required to make everyone aware of
  17 the issue.  I've had people reject Openstreetmap.org as a viable
  18 alternative for them because the front page lacked routing support,
  19 and I hope their needs will be catered for when routing show up on the
  20 www.openstreetmap.org front page.</p>