[Mapbender-dev] Routing with Web Processing Service

[Till Adams]

Petra,

please contact me next week in that task, I will send you some more
information.

in the moment I'm not at my place.

Till

> Petra Burmester wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we are interested in OGC conform routing functionalities in Mapbender.
>> Our first idea is the Web Processing Service. In the Mapbender-Wiki I've
>> read that routing is planned for one of the next versions. What are your
>> ideas to realize this? And is anybody already working on it?
>>
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Petra Burmester
>
> Hi,
> from what I know the routing part inside Mapbender is trivial and reduces
> to providing for "Start Address" and "End Address" boxes and sending the
> request to a PostgreSQL PostGIS box. I don't think that it will be helpful
> to exert OGC WPS as it is rather very generic and routing is a precise
> thing that can be implemented fairly straight forward. The power of
> routing lies in the details of the algorithms and even more so in the
> quality of the data.
>
> Till Adams will know more details but he is currently abroad, he'll be
> back next week.
>
> Best regards,
> Arnulf.
>


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