On 21/06/10 17:19, Kai Krueger wrote: > My guess would be that Nic meant: Fork (i.e. copy) the git rails_port > repository. Add the desired functionality and then once done try and get > it merged back into trunc. So the usual development way to get new > functionality into the main site. > > In case someone would try and do it, it would probably be a good idea to > make the frontend code as backend agnostic as possible. In that case it > may even be possible for people to choose which routing engine they want > to use. Be it gosmore, some other yet to be written opensource routing > engine, open route service, or even a commercial provider like > cloudmade's routing.
Well if somebody can provide a backend that returns a GPX or KML or something then I'm sure somebody will hack up the rails port to be able to display those routes. Nominatim is the model here - a separate server with an API the rails code can call to get what it needs. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([email protected]) http://compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev

