[ubuntu-uk] Route Planning Solution?

[Stephen Drake]

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 13:30 +0100, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> On 14/04/2008, Alex Barrett <alex at netherways.com> wrote:
> > These are pretty useless to me as they don't contain width/height/weight
> >  restrictions where something like Autoroute does.
> 
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> 
> Some time in the future, I hope that openstreetmap.org will provide
> the basis of many free route planning applications that run natively
> in Linux.
> 

Have you seen planet OSM?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Planet.osm

Unfortunately, I haven't seen an easy to install/use desktop oriented
application that uses it yet. So you'll probably have to configure a
local web server with a slippy map or something.

Steve