Nick Black wrote: > To your point about integrating other people's services, I think its > clear. Whatever the best service available is should be used.
"Best" is in the eye of the beholder. Subject to minimum quality standards (no long outages, results not completely bogus) and a common API, we should let the user choose between available services. I could in theory code a routing service that was better than CM's for validating the type of mapping I tend to do (i.e. long cycle routes) but less useful for housing estates. It's exactly the same as with the map layers. I think (awaits flames) that Steve Chilton's Mapnik layer is the best OSM cartography there is at present, and if you apply commonly-accepted cartographic standards than that's probably not just opinion, it's objective truth. But we don't refuse to offer other layers (e.g. Osmarender) because this is the single "best"; we have the OL layer chooser. In fact, offering a routing chooser might even encourage the development of more routing applications, and that has to be good. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cloudmade-routing-for-OSM-rails_port-site.-tp23251791p23294656.html Sent from the OpenStreetMap - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev