On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Nic Roets <nro...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/5/2 Niklas Cholmkvist <towards...@gmail.com>: >> I added an Introduction at >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_FLOSS . I didn't put very > > 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: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Gosmore#Illegal_Routing
added the idea of a routing api that would talk to the different router and to make them interoperable, is that ok? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_FLOSS#Project_open_routing_api _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk