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The Strategic Working Group have put together a proposal for a policy regarding the adding of new online routing services to the openstreetmap.org website.
For more information about the criteria read the
| Functionality (hover for description) | YOURS [1] | CycleStreets [2] | Cloudmade [3] | Routino [4] | Roadeeno [5] | BBBike @ World [6] | MapQuest [7] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coverage | Global | UK only | Global | UK only | Global | Selected Cities | Global | ||
| Modes of transportation | |||||||||
| Car routing | F/S[1] | no | F/S | F/S | F/S | no | F/S | ||
| Bicycle routing | F/S/Q[2][3] | F/S/Q | F | F/S/Q | F/S/Q[2] | F/S/Q | no | ||
| Pedestrian routing | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | no | no | ||
| Avoid street types | no | partial | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Routing over ferry routes | yes | yes | No[4] | yes | no | yes | yes | ||
| User interface | |||||||||
| Route instructions | no[4] | yes | yes | yes | yes: web and navigation | yes | yes | ||
| Multilingual instructions | no[4] | no | API only[4][5] | English, German, Dutch[6] | German, English | yes | yes | ||
| Permalink for routes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | ||
| GPX download | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | ||
| KML download | server-side | yes | no | no | no | yes | no | ||
| geoJSON download | server-side | ? | ? | no | yes | no | no | ||
| Service information | |||||||||
| Open source | yes | no[7] | no | yes | yes | yes | no | ||
| API | yes | Partial | yes | not online but is open-source | partial | yes | yes | ||
| Regular routing data updates | approx. weekly | every few days | weekly | Every Tuesday & Saturday | approx. weekly | bi-weekly | daily | ||
Notes
- ↑ Fastest/Shortest
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Selecting the cyclenetworks layer will result in routes that are part of cycleroutes which will be nicer, more quiet etc. then shortest/fastest.
- ↑ Fastest/Shortest/Queitest
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Under development.
- ↑ See instructions for submitting a localization. Localizations currently include German, Chinese, Russian, Romanian, Dutch and Vietnamese.
- ↑ Translations possible but few available.
- ↑ Potentially in the future.