Tom Hughes <[email protected]> writes: > 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.
There is an OSM wiki page that lists many online routers (presumably meaning they already have a web interface), several of which are free software: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing/online_routers They offer a wide variety of features (according to the comparison table) and nearly all of them offer results as GPX format. Before I finish I should declare an interest here: I wrote one of the free software routers listed on that wiki page. -- Andrew. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew M. Bishop [email protected] _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
