Ok, I had a look at it. It seems t work fine. I just can't see any driving
instructions. Not sure if BRouter
provides these.
I was musing over BRouter myself in the past. It would be great to have offline
routing. However doing it via
a local routing server is something that scared me away. For me and you it's no
problem to follow the
instructions from the homepage and to embed the start script somewhere to start
the service.
However for the normal user this is way too much. They expect to install
QLandkarte or QMapShack with
more or less a single click and everything has to work. For some even
downloading maps, DEM files and
with BRouter routing information, is a hard task that pushes their skills to a
limit.
Thus the only way to make that work is to install BRouter with QLGT or QMS.
Easier said than done.
BRouter uses Java. Thus a complete JRE has to be installed on the system. For
Windows the installer is done
by Helmut and he could package BRouter as he is doing it with GDAL. Still the
correct Java installation has to
be done somehow.
For Linux it's way more complicated. We have to convince the package
maintainers to install BRouter. Often
the maintainers do not really know the software they maintain. If it compiles
and starts without a complain
it's done. Connecting to a BRouter server will slip their attention.
These are the reasons why I would say Java is not the best language for such I
nice software as BRouter is. I
would prefer a C/C++ library that can be embedded into other applications or
into script languages like Java
or Python. Imho the server approach is just a lame way to workaround that
problem.
Anyway is there a nice way to solve this? I really like having an offline
router and I have the deepest respect
for the author's work of BRouter. If it would be for that silly Java trap...
Oliver
> Hi there,
>
> I've implemented support for BRouter (http://brouter.de/brouter-web/) in
> QLandkarteGT:
>
> https://github.com/ntruchsess/QLandkarteGT/commit/486d31517d97a519ef9a5410e4
> 70349229c83d0c
>
> It adds a new Routing-configuration for BRouter that allows to choose
> the appropriate routing-profile. Brouter is best installed locally (see
> https://github.com/nrenner/brouter-web#readme) and run in standalone
> mode.
> Support for custom-routing-profiles you might have added to your
> BRouter-install may be configured in QLandkarteGT.conf (no gui yet),
> routing section. Non-local ip and port may also be set there:
>
> [routing]
> service=2
> BR\preference=4
> BR\profiles=car-test|fastbike|moped|shortest|trekking
> BR\host=127.0.0.1
> BR\port=17777
>
> If you are interested to merge this change into QLandkarteGT SVN-repo in
> which format would you like to receive the change? Or do you prefer
> giving contributors write-access to the SVN-repo?
>
> regards,
>
> Norbert
>
>
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