This is awesome, will help and inspire many. Kudos Nikhil and Srihari On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 1:15 AM Nikhil VJ <nikhil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [Re-mailing without the screenshot to meet size restrictions] > > Hi folks, > > I'd like to share about OSRM - Open Source Routing Machine. It can work > with freely downloadable Openstreetmap data to give a self-hosted > road-routing solution that's a drop-in replacement for many google maps > services (not that one you want the most, but many ;) ) > > I see a lot of promise in this and similar tools to help businesses and > organisations involved in transport, logistics, GPS, delivery etc to save > expenses. There is a huge amount of money Indian companies are sending out > of the country for geo-services - I'd like to see some of that retained. > > Decentralizing is a key enabler here: Bringing down the base area makes > your OSRM program fast and light. So, instead of trying to load the whole > planet's OSM data or all of India's, loading just your region lets you do > road routing fast and cheap. > There's some technical hurdles to cross in learning how to set up and use > OSRM. Towards that, with lots of help in dockerizing from Srihari Thalla, > I've started a project on github : https://osrm-decentralized.github.io/ > with the > aim of making it easy for anyone to "roll their own" OSRM using some easy > docker recipes. > > There's a live demo page here : https://osrm-decentralized.github.io/demo > If you have an OSRM instance serving an area, inviting to add your link to > this live demo. > > For grabbing your state/UT's openstreetmap data, I've set up this resource > where you can get the latest data updated daily: > https://server.nikhilvj.co.in/dump/ > (it's using older states shapes from a datameet repo, please share the new > JK / Ladakh UTs if you have) > If you want your specific region's osm pbf data to be daily updated and > available for download here, let me know and we might be able to work > something out. > > Please share with people who might find this useful. > And (belated) Happy Independence Day :) > > -- > Cheers, > Nikhil VJ > https://nikhilvj.co.in > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > Talk-in@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in >
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