Show HN: Valhalla, an open source routing engine

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Post by sevko » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 7:12 PM UTC

Show HN: Valhalla, an open source routing engine
mapzen.com

Re: Show HN: Valhalla, an open source routing engine

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Post by jastoltz24 » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 7:29 PM UTC

Looks great! I really like the norse themed repository names ... though I'm not familiar with "demos" and "conf", are they some sort of mythical norse figures as well?

Re: Show HN: Valhalla, an open source routing engine

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Post by sevko » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 7:34 PM UTC

Also, source code is here: https://github.com/valhalla

Re: Show HN: Valhalla, an open source routing engine

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 7:34 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Valhalla, an open source routing engine

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Post by sevko » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 7:35 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #4

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Source code is here: https://github.com/valhalla

Re: Show HN: Valhalla, an open source routing engine

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Post by synaesthesisx » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 7:35 PM UTC

WE SHALL RIDE THROUGH THE GATES OF VALHALLA, SHINY AND CHROME!

Re: Show HN: Valhalla, an open source routing engine

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Post by th0br0 » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 7:35 PM UTC

sevko wrote: post #5

[deleted] wrote: post #4

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Source code is here: https://github.com/valhalla

Whoops, looks like you responded just after I deleted my comment having seen your other. Thanks! Was searching for that link without success. It's awesome that they wrote most in C++ though!

Re: Show HN: Valhalla, an open source routing engine

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Post by mozumder » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 7:46 PM UTC

synaesthesisx wrote: post #6

WE SHALL RIDE THROUGH THE GATES OF VALHALLA, SHINY AND CHROME!

Oh what a website.. WHAT A LOVELY WEBSITE!

Re: Show HN: Valhalla, an open source routing engine

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Post by Zikes » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 8:06 PM UTC

jastoltz24 wrote: post #2

Looks great! I really like the norse themed repository names ... though I'm not familiar with "demos" and "conf", are they some sort of mythical norse figures as well?

"demos" must be a typo of "deimos".

Re: Show HN: Valhalla, an open source routing engine

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Post by juliangoldsmith » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 8:10 PM UTC

Does anyone know how good the OpenStreetMap data is? I thought I'd heard that it was pretty incomplete.