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Also, source code is here: https://github.com/valhalla
Since most routing software is proprietary, I think it would be good to combat it by using a strong copyleft on the Valhalla components. GPLv3+ for client software and AGPLv3+ for server software would be awesome.
Does anyone know how good the OpenStreetMap data is? I thought I'd heard that it was pretty incomplete.
The road data is very good to excellent in most of the developed/Western world, particularly in Europe.
The footpath data is really the only available of online global maps, and is often excellent (down to details of surface quality).
The POI data is very good in continental Western Europe (down to trees, benches, water fountains etc), and then otherwise will vary depending on the city, or the country.
There is also a Postgres/Postgis extension pgRouting (http://pgrouting.org/) that will do routing in the database.
I think I may have found an issue with this. I tried to get directions, and it fell off a random road and then proceeded to have me swim across the San Francisco Bay: - http://i.imgur.com/wWilOoC.png
Your feature/bug: the router told you to take a ferry. You'll see the ferry route represented here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=SF%2C%20CA#map=13/...
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?
Conf, the lesser known God of configurations and setups. He made sure that everything was well defined in a single place in a concise format, such as acceleration due to gravity, etc.
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Are you a salesman by any chance?
Nah. Ebay already solved that problem.
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Since most routing software is proprietary, I think it would be good to combat it by using a strong copyleft on the Valhalla components. GPLv3+ for client software and AGPLv3+ for server software would be awesome.
Glancing at the Valhalla repos, it looks like the MIT license across the board: https://github.com/valhalla ; https://github.com/valhalla/thor/blob/master/COPYING ; https://github.com/valhalla/chef-valhalla/blob/master/LICENS... ; etc... Also, it's not so much that the routing engines are proprietary -- the best ones are not. The underlying databases are the secret sauce.
