OpenRouter

== Special Announcement ==
FOSS4G 2010 Conference
== Open Source Router ==
For those not familiar with the concept, routing provides the path between two locations. Often there can be criteria considered such as time, cost, and so forth.
===Project Purpose===
The intention of this project is to work towards creation of open source software providing routing capability.
===Design goals===
Desired attributes:
* Library Coded in C (or C wrapper to C++)
* This library could SWIG wrapped for integration into scripting languages, or used in RDBMS engines like pgRouting in PostgreSQL, or via a command line or webservice tools.
* Architected and designed for performance. An ideal goal would be to handle graphs in the ballpark of 25-35 million edges and able to generate sub-sec responses.
* Abstracted storage to allow for use of data from various sources e.g. shapefiles, RDBMS, others
* Support multiple subject-matter domains, outside of transportation, such as utility and telecom networks
===Contact information===
Please join us on the mailing list.
NOTE: This mailing list is shared between this project and the OpenGeocoder project.
===Relevant Existing Open Source Technologies===
* pgRouting
* pgRoute
* GRASS GIS v.net.* modules see:
** http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.net.html - Vector maintenance
** http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.net.path.html - Shortest path
** http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.net.salesman.html - Traveling salesman (round trip)
** http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.net.alloc.html - Allocation of sources (create subnetworks)
** http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.net.steiner.html - Minimum Steiner trees (star-like connections)
** http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.net.visibility.html - Visibility graph construction
** http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/v.net.iso.html - Iso-distances (from centers)
* GraphServer
===Target Licensing===
* Preference for a liberal license to encourage adoption by maximum number of technologies both proprietary and open source
===Project Support===
====Development====
The following list are people who are interested in participating in development of this project:
* Andrew Ross - Ingres / fosslc.org
* Daniel Kastl - pgRouting | Georepublic
* Anton Patrushev - pgRouting | Georepublic
* Toru Mori - pgRouting | Orkney
* Stephen Woodbridge - http://imaptools.com/
* Claude Philipona - Camptocamp
* Dimitris Kotzinos - OSGeo Greece (possibly ...)
* Robert Hollingsworth
* Paul Ramsey - Clever Elephant
====Testing====
The following list are people who are interested in participating in testing of this project:
* Andrew Ross - Ingres / fosslc.org
* Daniel Kastl - pgRouting | Georepublic
* Anton Patrushev - pgRouting | Georepublic
* Toru Mori - pgRouting | Orkney
* Stephen Woodbridge - http://imaptools.com/
* Dirk Frigne - Dirk Frigne | Geomajas
* Claude Philipona - Camptocamp
====Consumers====
The following list are people that plan to make use of this project:
* Andrew Ross - Ingres / fosslc.org
* Dave McIlhagga - DM Solutions Group
* Daniel Kastl - pgRouting | Georepublic
* Anton Patrushev - pgRouting | Georepublic
* Toru Mori - pgRouting | Orkney
* Stephen Woodbridge - http://imaptools.com/
* V.Ravi Kumar - OSGeo India
* Dimitris Kotzinos - OSGeo Greece
* Dirk Frigne - Dirk Frigne | Geomajas
* David Jonglez - Capgemini
* Claude Philipona - Camptocamp
* Cédric Moullet - Camptocamp