While the quality of openstreetmap has changed from unusable to what is now arguably the best map for bicycle trip planning in recent years (at least in germany) unfortunately free bicycle trip planning software has not.
The following table is probably not complete so please post your suggestions if you know about other tools.
I just tested FOSS and web based tools because commercial applications like TTQV tend to be running on windows only anyway.
So here is the current state of the tools I checked. What I would really like to see in the future is a gpsies.com like semi-automatic-routing feature but based on osm instead of google.
stand alone applications: | ||||||||
| Software | OSM tiles | Google maps/aerial images | WMS | Garmin maps | rectified images | Automatic routing | Manual route planning | semi-automatic routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viking | yes | not allowed | via hack | no | no | no | yes | no |
| QLandkarteGT | yes | no | no | no | yes | no | yes | no |
web based tools: | ||||||||
| Software | OSM tiles | Google maps/aerial images | WMS | Garmin maps | rectified images | Automatic routing | Manual route planning | semi-automatic routing |
| marengo-ltd.co.uk | my hacked version | yes | no | no | no | no | yes | no |
| pifpafpuf.de | yes | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no |
| gpsies.com | yes | yes | no | no | no | Google API | yes | Google API |
| openrouteservice.org | yes | no | no | no | no | OSM | no | no |
My current workflow ist still using about 2 or 3 of these tools because fortunately all of them are able to read/write GPX file format.
Currently I just set up a hack which will translate tile requests into WMS to allow using them in viking. This is basically the same setup (with a slightly modified mapfile) already in use at wms.openstreetmap.de and available from Openstreetmap SVN.
An example tile URL for this kind of setup would be http://wms.gegg.us/tms/DOP_RGB/12/2143/1406.png. Please note that this data has not been approved for Openstreetmap use so please do not use these tiles for mapping.
I am not entirely sure what you are looking for, so maybe my suggestions are totally off. But here are some other online services that use OSM data and allow you to plan bicycle trips:
http://www.cyclestreets.net
nroets.dev.openstreetmap.org/demo3/
bikerouting.com
http://www.ridethecity.com
http://www.naviki.org/en/start/
P.S. now how do I defeat the spam filter with all those links? 😉 Maybe if I butcher them a bit…
WordPress default to not allow more than 2 links 🙁
For a first glance. cyclestreets seems to be UK only.
What I’m looking for is assisted manual route planning. I currently tend to start from something calculated by openrouteservice and then import these route into one of the other tools for manual corrections.
Take a look at a Marble >= 0.10.0. In 0.10.0, it uses OpenRouteService; their SVN version even has offline routing AIUI. The user interface for routing is pretty awesome.
http://nienhueser.de/blog/ has some articles about it.