Jonas, Jonas Gabriel wrote: > I am in search of a Master Thesis' project idea in the field of Location > Based Applications/Services. Last night I came > across OpenRouteService.org <http://www.openrouteservice.org/> and had > an epiphany about a routing service based on social contribution.Let me > clear out my idea:
Peter Miller has done a talk at the 2008 State of the Map conference (in Limerick) about something in that direction; he explained that different people may favour different routes for very different reasons and that it could be a good idea to ask: "What route would people like me use?" Personally I would probably not make it as difficult as you; I would simply allow individual weights for bits of the routing graph. I.e. you would not upload a route; instead you would have the system compute the route it thinks is best, and then you'd say: "Nah, I don't like that because it takes me along a busy road. I'll add a 50% penalty to that road and see where it takes me now. Oh well it doesn't use that bit of footway there but it really should, so I'll give that a bonus, etc. Anyone could then use the routing engine either with the normal weights, or with a combination of weights of different users. But still this might be too big for a Master's thesis. Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
