No doubt CM and other candidates would volunteer to maintain the box. I would anyway, but providing a box is too much.
Namefinder is at times, let's say, troublesome but only a small part of the whole routing process and therefore doesn't stop usage and development of a routing service if it's not perfect. Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Andy Allan wrote: >> That's what we're looking for feedback on - what do you think? > > Assuming we're not going to host an open-source routing service on an OSM > box (which we're not unless someone supplies the box and volunteers to > maintain it, I guess), we'd need to do the "Different routing services are > available" thing - and the precedent is that we'd do it in a similar way to > the tile source selection. > > Very very roughly, that might involve replacing the car/walk/cycle selector > with a drop-down menu: > > - Albert's Routing Service > - CloudMade (bicycle) > - CloudMade (car) > - CloudMade (walking) > - OpenRouteService > - YOURS > - Zarquon Bicycle Directions > > ...assuming that all these services had a common API for such requests. > > But IMO any effort in this area would be best devoted to fixing Namefinder. > A decent namefinder is a prerequisite of a routing service anyway. > > cheers > Richard _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
