> your comments will only lead to stuff like openrouteservice.org > being developed totally behind closed doors - the software I wrote
Academic research is so screwed up.. > And as for unnecessary duplication - most good things in OSM have > been invented/programmed three or four times over. It's almost > a tradition. Three or four times before the inception of OSM (Garmin, Tom Tom, Destinator etc) More than 4 times in the open source community (RoadNav, NavIt, etc). At least if we do it once properly with PD sources, there's a chance that we will encourage all these little shareware projects now springing up to build on top of instead of from scratch. E.g. http://www.gpstuner.com/ _______________________________________________ Routing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/routing
