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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