[OSGeo-Discuss] Remote routing solutions
Stephen Woodbridge
woodbri at swoodbridge.com
Tue Oct 6 14:21:23 PDT 2009
Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> Folks,
>
> May I kindly ask for a bit of brainstorming about
> available and programmatically callable,
> optionally usable,
> optionally effective,
> optionally robust
> solutions of remote routing services?
>
> The use case is very simple:
> 1) client is a non-Web thin client
> 2) client has access to the Internet
> 3) client knows two locations "start" and "destination"
> 4) client wants to know how to travel from start to destination
>
> What are available options to achieve that? Where if availability means:
> * accessible for public
> * free of charge
> * does not require to sign anything,
>
> Custom solutions built on OGC-enabled stack (e.g. PyWPS, etc.) is also
> an option to discuss.
>
> Any input greatly appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
Mateusz,
Is the client looking for a solution that runs somewhere on the net that
they can make requests to, or are they looking to setup a server with
data and a routing engine?
So I'll plug my infant and immature routing engine project:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opengraphrouter/
Also pgRouting is an option.
The big issues in most cases will be data. Some people are doing routing
with OpenStreetMap and pgRouting. If they want accurate (ie: navigable
routes then they will probably need something based on Navteq or
TeleAtlas) or if they are look at a small county or state wide area then
they might be able to get data from the local governments like
http://www.mass.gov/mgis/mapping.htm
Because good data is expensive and licensed, in most cases by
transactions, it is not likely that you will find services equivalent to
Google that are free.
-Steve W
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