Ask HN: Do you use OpenStreetMaps (OSM) Routing systems on production?

6 points by __bee 8 years ago | 2 comments

Hi,

We are trying to replace [Google Maps]( https://developers.google.com/maps/premium/) to use other alternatives like Mapbox, HERE in the future. However, we found that there are some Open Source Project like OSRM [1], Valhalla [2]. I would like to know what is your experiences with OpenStreetMaps as a backend for routing systems. If it is the case, would you please share your opinion and experience.

[1]: https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend

[2]: https://github.com/valhalla

senthilnayagam 8 years ago |

I am developing on OSRM.

OSRM is done by Mapbox guys, Valhalla team has joined Mapbox.

PGrouting is very slow. OSRM expects data in OSM/PBF format for parsing. there are no Postgis plugins to export to OSM/PBF. QGIS is a friend. OSRM is fast but needs 2 times the size of index as memory, for one server we are using 36gb RAM. Openstreetmap has many abandoned projects, does not have many features available in commercial projects. openstreetmap needs a fork to make it competitive for current generation of GIS apps.

Z_M_ 8 years ago |

How about the pgRouting(http://pgrouting.org/index.html) project? It's based on postGIS and its database based routing approach.