[OSGeo-Discuss] Remote routing solutions

[Chris Holmes]

We've actually also just kicked off an open source routing engine 
project, attempting to collaborate with all the open source trip 
planners we knew about at the time.

See http://opentripplanner.org/

We're working with Brandon of GraphServer, as well as the developers of 
Five Points (see http://new.atltransit.com/), One Bus Away (which has a 
trip planner) and ByCycle.org

Focused on multi-modal, to replace the routing engine at 
http://ride.trimet.org/ (currently the only proprietary piece of their 
whole map).  Though we might also have a bike routing use case soon.

Steven - it'd be great to collaborate in some way: if it's too late to 
collaborate on code we could at least build a common API.  In time we're 
hoping to establish a nice library of transit specific GeoExt type 
components.  So people could easily use OpenLayers and Ext.js to compose 
a transit map like Portland's.  It'd be great if those components could 
talk to the same routing API, and indeed could be the start of an 
improved open standard.

best regards,

Chris

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> 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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