Hi Norbert, OSM _and_ bicyle are nice keywords to raise my interest. And as Oliver dropped my name concerning the windows installer, I am stepping in to this discussion.
I had a look at the brouter web pages and git repo. The Java dependencies seem to be too much a burden for me to make a nice windows installer. I am missing an API or protocol description to understand how it works and how it can be used. I agree with Oliver that at C/C++ library would be great. I don't have a problem with a server based approach to decouple services as long as this a) does not introduce additional dependencies b) the setup is easy For the moment I have some doubts whether those conditions are met ;-(. Regards, Helmut Am 07.01.2015 um 18:30 schrieb Oliver Eichler: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! 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