Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Discussion on Routing

2008-11-12 Thread Claude Philipona
I agree with the needed improvements described by Stephen. I think the memory issue is big issue too and not well addresses right now. On the other hand, I don't think that a routing solution should really strongly depend on a Spatial databases. Actually, the optimization is more a network optim

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Discussion on Routing

2008-11-12 Thread (Orkney)Toru Mori
Steve, We, pgRouting developers are willing to contribute our code and know how to "database independent" routing engine development. Current pgRouting connects with PostgreSQL very much. But this does not mean we have to write codes from scratch again. Additionally, we have lessons to learn

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Discussion on Routing

2008-11-11 Thread Anton Patrushev
Hi Steve, Good points, thank you! However some of them are up to data and application. PgRouting is full of "hysterical raisins" and too much bounded with PostgreSQL - there is almost no border between pgRouting as library and wrapper functions which is application side already. I'm still thinki

[OSGeo-Discuss] Discussion on Routing

2008-11-11 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
(Orkney)Toru Mori wrote: [snip] > p.s. Anybody want to talk about routing? [changing subject line was: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?] I have started playing with pgRouting and find it to be an impressive start. It was easy to rewrite some of the plpgsql wrapper