Hi Tim, Actually upto some days before I did not have any idea about the OSM data structure, I already implemented a small primary for generating online routing from shape file. I have a plan to incorporate OSM data as input very soon. Regards Roni
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Andreas Volz <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 14 Mar 2010 17:43:54 +0100 schrieb Tim Teulings: > > > Hello! > > > > I'm still looking for people interested in helping me with further > > development libosmscout (http://libosmscout.sf.net). The library > > steadily improves, but more people could simply get more work done > > faster ;-) > > > > libosmscout is a C++ library, that implements offline map drawing and > > routing based on OSM data. It does this by import an existing *.osm > > file and generating a binary, plattform independent file based > > database and offering an high level API on top of this database. > > > > The main target group of the library are people that are interested > > in developing applications based on OSM and that do not want to > > directly access available data using existing online APIs. Such > > applications of course also include offline navigation software but > > of course other, more specialized applications are possible. > > > > Recent discussions with interested people however have shown that > > libosmscout has a much broader target group. Since the library > > consists of separate components for import, dataaccess, routing and > > map drawing, other usage senarios are also possible and I'm also > > looking for people that want to improve libosmscout in that direction: > > > > * Generating stylable (paper) maps > > * Using it as a small desktop local caching tile server with very > > light infrastructure requirements. > > * Using it to tests and compare different routing alogrithm (that can > > share pre- and postprocessing and thus safe the developer the hassle > > to fiddle around with *.osm file format and generating a good textual > > routing description). > > * Use the internal data structures and map drawing for online-data > > API based map drawing > > * Statistical analysis and data test suite > > > > libosmscout currently depends on libxml and libcairo (, but even that > > could be abstracted ;-)) and thus should work on various platforms. > > > > If you are interested take a look at libosmscout.sf.net for further > > details (and a video) or simply contact me. > > Hello Tim, > > as you know I tried your library some weeks ago and I think it's really > good. I integrated it into my navigation software and use it since this > time. Currently I'm busy with developing some other part of my > software so I couldn't spend more time into libosmscout at the moment. > > For me speed is much more important than new features. :-) > > But I could only suggest more people to give libosmscout a try! It's a > nice software that has much potential. > > regards > Andreas > > _______________________________________________ > Routing mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/routing >
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