Nice work :-)

Cheers

Andy

>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb-
>boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Andrew M. Bishop
>Sent: 22 March 2009 10:23 PM
>To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [Talk-GB] Route planner using UK OSM data
>
>I have been a contributor to OpenStreetMap for a while now and
>recently decided to make use of some of the collected data rather than
>just adding to it.
>
>I decided that what would be fun to implement is a routing algorithm
>that can find the best (shortest or quickest) route between any two
>OSM highway nodes.  I know that there are other routing algorithms
>available but this started as an intellectual exercise so I developed
>my own.  It seemed to work so I added a fancy web front end to it and
>put it on a server.
>
>Having the complete planet routable was infeasible so I have just
>included the data for Ireland and Great Britain.
>
>You can select from any of the major OSM transport types (foot,
>bicycle, horse, motorbike, motorcar, goods, hgv, psv).  For each of
>the OSM highway types (motorway, trunk, primary, secondary, tertiary,
>unclassified, residential, service, track, bridleway, cycleway,
>footway) you can select whether to use them and if so what speed
>limit.  Restrictions on one-way streets, weight, height, width and
>length are also options.
>
>The router takes into account private/public/permissive restrictions
>on highways as well as tagged speed limits.  What it doesn't do is
>barriers (gates, bollards) and turn restriction relations (which I
>have heard about but never seen).
>
>
>The router itself (requires JavaScript for the map etc):
>
>http://www.gedanken.org.uk/mapping/router/router.html
>
>A description of the algorithm:
>
>http://www.gedanken.org.uk/mapping/router/
>
>--
>Andrew.
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Andrew M. Bishop                             a...@gedanken.demon.co.uk
>
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