Hi, I want to tell that I develop a new OSM-Routing application as a Web-service and website.
A first version for complete Germany (over 1,4 million street segements) just went online in a very first prototype version at: http://www.openrouteservice.org The interesting thing is that it uses both free and open OSM street data and also an "open" international standard for the routing API. It is the Open Location Services Route Service Specification of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). It also supports "avoidareas" which are regions that shall be avoided by the routing algorithm. Possible usage scenarios include disasters, traffic jams, construction works etc. At the moment the first version of the interactive Website is online, but the idea is to publish also the URL for the web-service itself, so that it can be used as OGC Web Service using a standardised OpenLS XML-Request. This would allow to use the service easily - and in an interoperable way in your own applcaitions. Some more information on this idea can be found in our publications: see at http://www.openrouteservice.org -> Info. Of course we plan to integrate other countries, too, but first we need to improve the application, adding data then is easy. As we have implemented a range of further OGC OpenLS core services. in the next days further functionalities and services will be added, such as a OGC Geocoder (OpenLS Location Utility Service Specification) using OSM Data ... best whishes pascal http://www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/karto/ _______________________________________________ Routing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/routing
