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 |
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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.
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