Comment 6 for bug 1385924

On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 01:42:05 -0000
"Paul Wise \(Debian\)" <email address hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 13:09 +0000, Charles Curley wrote:
>

> > I tried 43.473103,-110.746994 and 43.474350,-110.782700, using a map
> > scale of 14. It failed ("No route found...") for open route
> > services, succeeded for your navigation.
>
> I tried this just now and get this response from the API:
>
> Position 'Start' not possible (no street in 300.0 meter).
> Please Check your Position: -110.746994 43.473103 !

Curiouser and curiouser. I copied and pasted from your email, and got
correct routing from "your navigation". Still "no route found" from the
other.

>
> When I tried your search on the openrouteservice.org website I get
> this:
>
> Message: Position 'Start' not possible (no street in 300.0 meter).
> Please Check your Position: -110.7021439 43.452132 !
> Notice: the Route Service is at this time only for Europe!

I couldn't even get that far with my lat and long co-ordinates. "Please
set 'Start' and 'End' point first! Enter your addresses in the
textfields and press 'Set' or use rightclick to set the points on the
map."

The web site does say, "First Europe-wide ..." so perhaps a "Europe
only" note on the FoxtrotGPS widget is in order. How hard would it be
to block non-European locations. Oh, yeah: define "European" for this
purpose.

Just for the halibut, I tried those points on the "your navigation" web
site. I got a route, except that th start point is further up the
canyon on Cache Creek Drive to the east than where I set it on
FoxtrotGPS. Odd, but it worked.

>
> So at this point I think:
>
> FoxtrotGPS is working as before for openrouteservice.org.
>
> The openrouteservice.org folks need to improve their API to search for
> further away roads/tracks etc, probably 2km would be good.
>
> The openrouteservice.org folks need to add support for roads
> worldwide.
>
> FoxtrotGPS could probably provide a hint about zooming in.

That would be nice.

>
> FoxtrotGPS could probably provide hints about openrouteservice.org.

Also nice.

>
> FoxtrotGPS could probably provide errors from the API in the UI.

That would also be nice for diagnostics.

>
> I personally don't intend to work on these issues, help welcome
> though.
>

I can't right now. As you say, help welcome.

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