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Google Code-in 2013 KDE

Towards a Marble routing backend for cyclestreets.net

completed by: Mikhail Ivchenko

mentors: Torsten Rahn, Dennis Nienhüser

Marble is a virtual globe and world atlas — your Swiss army knife for maps. Find your way and explore the world!

We'd like to integrate cyclestreets.net as a routing backend in Marble.

  • Register an API key at http://www.cyclestreets.net/api/apply/
  • Have a look at the API at http://www.cyclestreets.net/api/journey/
  • Write a basic routing plugin (possibly based on /plugins/runner/mapquest) which transforms a route request from Marble to an API call of cyclestreets and retrieves the data. There are a couple of similar routing backends (e.g. mapquest, openrouteservice, open-source-routing-machine) which can give you ideas
  • Do not parse the returned data yet, this will be done in a later task
  • There's no need for a configuration interface yet, this will be done in a later task

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