This is fantastic stuff :-)

Would it be possible to upload a GPX of locations, for ORS to work out 
the route around? I'm thinking primarily of the data stored in 
http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/, but obviously it could be used for 
many other things.

Regards

Kyle

Pascal Neis wrote:
> Hi List,
> www.OpenRouteService.org now supports Bicycle Routing with OSM Data
>
> www.OpenRouteService.org (ORS) offers not only pedestrian and fastest
> and shortes routing based on the OpenGIS Open Location Service
> specifications (OGC OpenLS), but also bicycle routing for the whole of
> Germany. The OpenStreetMap data needs to be preprocessed a big deal in
> order to calculate a topological street network valid for routing. This
> processing generates currently about 2 million street segements for
> Germany (from originally about 900.000 streets). The routing is now
> based on the A-star algorithm and which improved the performance in
> spite of the increasing data. Further extensions are in work and planned.
>
> Currently the following keys are used for car routing:
> - highway with value = motorway, motorway_link, trunk, trunk_link, primary, 
> primary_link,
> secondary, tertiary, unclassified, residential, service/access=yes and 
> living_street
> - motorcar=yes/no
> - oneway
> - junction
>
> Currently the following keys are used for pedestrian routing:
> - highway with value = all car highway values (without motorway/-link), track,
> service, bridleway, cycleway, footway, pedestrian and steps
> - foot=yes/no
>
> Currently the following keys are used for bycycle routing: ....
> - highway with value = all car highway values (without motorway/-link), track,
> service, bridleway, cycleway, pedestrian and footway
> - bicycle=yes/no
> - work in progress: tracktype
>
> Of course there are other combinations and possbilities and we
> are evaluating those, but this shall serve as a first start ...
>
> We are interested in your feedback! So far the service is restricted
> to Germany only, we will add more later.
>
> Cheers
> pascal
>
>
>
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