On 3 May 2010 08:36, Nic Roets <nro...@gmail.com> wrote: > The most important reason (for me at least) to write OSM related > FLOSS, is increase the rate at which tags are standardized. For > example, if contributors find that their favorite router generates bad > routes, they look for bugs in the underlying data. If it generates > good routes, they'll move on. If that router happens to be proprietary > it will mean that some of the data is, in effect locked up in a > proprietary standard. If the source is published, then the OSM > community can at least look at the what variables influences the > router and aim for compatibility. And if you think that contributors > only look at the wiki, look at this discussion:
It'd be nice, if instead of 50 different routing engine there was only 1 or 2, and they were independent of the UI apps. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
