Reid,
There are a few of us here in Sydney who are also interested in this
problem.
If you are open sourcing your code, and are prepared to put your code up
on Sourceforge or similar, we may have some developers interested in
helping out.
I haven't got as much time as I had last year, but I was developing
feature entry tools last year (Open Source) which might be a good
starting point for you.
http://bikemap.openearth.com.au/
(There is also some alpha code which I haven't published yet).
Reid Priedhorsky wrote:
jessica forbess wrote:
Hey, I'm a GIS noob, but I was recently overcome with a desire to see
a bicycle directions button on the Google Maps page, so I started to
poke around to see what has been done in terms of bicycling routing,
and open source routing in general.
Hi Jessica,
I'm not sure where you're located, but my research group is working on
a fairly advanced bicycle route-planning system, focusing on
Minneapolis-St. Paul for now. We'll have community features as Rich
suggested and lots of other great stuff. We hope to be live this fall,
and it will be open source eventually.
As others have noted, the routing is easy (A* search is preferable to
Dijkstra's algorithm) but getting the data is hard. Even if you have
the locations of all the bike facilities, those aren't necessarily the
best ways to go, and a good route depends on individual purpose and
preferences as well. It's actually a rather hard problem.
If you like, I'd be happy to send you updates on our system once
things start getting interesting.
Take care,
Reid
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