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Routing With Open Standards and OpenStreetMap PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 30 September 2008 03:04
An innovative project, called OpenRouteService, shows how "volunteered geography" and OGC standards can be merged together. This project respond to the need for a "public-owned" routing service. From the article: "OpenRouteService.org is the first routing service that uses OpenStreetMap data and provides those through the standardized interfaces specified by the OGC within the OGC Open Location Services initiative (OpenLS)". This project has been implemented by the Research Group Cartography, Department of Geography, University of Bonn. The application works from Denmark to Italy. See this article for more information. Update: 09/30 21:17 GMT by S : Fixed gignacnic summary"s source name.

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