Hi, I’m new here.
I have a set of tools for taking map data and converting it into a routable network. It’s been built up over the years and recently I’ve done some work so that it can work with OSM maps. It does what I suspect are all the usual things: chooses usable ways, splits ways where there’s an intersection, joins ways where there isn't, adds turn penalties, simplifies way geometries... It works topographically rather than topologically because I’ve found that there’s an awful lot of near misses in road networks. There's a verification tool that finds connectivity errors and other map problems. The tool is pretty quick, and writes routable networks in a text format or as memory-mapped data structures. It all works nicely for where I come from (New Zealand). However, I’d have to do a bit of work to get it work it larger countries. Obviously, open toolsets for all this already exist for OSM (I’m aware of at least OSRM and Graphhopper and can find my way slowly around the wiki). I guess I’m trying to decide whether to invest more work in my own toolset, and if so assess whether there’s interest in yet-another such tool - I’m happy to put the effort into putting it on github if it’s likely anyone will look at it - or whether to jump ship and adopt one of the existing projects. Does anyone have any insight or advice about this? Thanks in advance, Geoff _______________________________________________ Routing mailing list Routing@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/routing
