> I've done a few tests with the online demo of their contraction 
> hierarchies routing engine and the results are astonishing: South- to 
> North- Germany in 65 milliseconds. Very impressive. But I don't know how 
> many parameters are considered on each edge (turn restrictions, traffic 
> lights, sharp corners etc).

Did you try that one ?
http://algo2.iti.kit.edu/schultes/hwy/demo/applet.html

As far as I know, the online demo is running the Highway Hierarchies 
algorithm. But still, most of the 65ms is used for communication. With 
the current Contraction Hierarchy code it should be even less.

> It would be awesome if this routing engine could be tested with OSM 
> data. I.e. how much disk space, preprocessing time and memory needed for 
> generating a routing database containing the whole OSM database, and 
> also how these parameters look like when doing routing calculations on 
> that database.

I experimented on the road network of Germany about a year ago. 
Preprocessing was something like 5 mins or so. Have a look at the 
Contraction Hierarchies paper at 
https://algo2.iti.uni-karlsruhe.de/routeplanning.php

It states the times for commercial european and north american road 
networks that are more dense than the osm data.

--Dennis

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