Older News (pre version 2.7)
- 6th July 2015 - Polish translation available
- A Polish translation of the Routino XML file (used when
calculating route descriptions) and the Router and Visualiser web
page are available. These were provided using the translations
tool and can be downloaded in the latest subversion version.
Translation tool.
Subversion instructions. - 26th April 2015 - Hungarian translation available
- A Hungarian translation of the Routino XML file (used when
calculating route descriptions) and the Router and Visualiser web
page are available. These were provided using the translations
tool and can be downloaded in the latest subversion version.
Translation tool.
Subversion instructions. - 8th November 2014 - Version 2.7.3 of Routino released
- Slightly reduced memory usage and large reduction in time to
generate routing database on low memory systems.
Full release information.
New benchmarking for low memory. - 26th June 2014 - Version 2.7.2 of Routino released
- A few bug fixes for bugs introduced in version 2.7.1 on 64-bit systems.
Full release information. - 17th May 2014 - Version 2.7.1 of Routino released
- Lots of bug fixes, some for new bugs in v2.7 but many for older bugs.
Changed the way that 'cyclebothways' is handled but this means that this
version is not compatible with databases from older versions.
Full release information. - 22nd March 2014 - Online translation tool available
- To simplify the creation of new translated versions of the router web
pages and route instructions an online tool is available to simplify their
creation. If you would like to improve Routino's support for your language
please join in and translate something.
Translation tool. - 22nd March 2014 - Version 2.7 of Routino released
- Update web page HTML for touch screens. Allow choice of either
Leaflet
or
OpenLayers
Javascript map libraries. Simplify the creation of translated web pages.
Add '--output-stdout', '--reverse' & '--loop' option to router.
Allow bicycles both ways on certain oneway roads if tagging allows.
Fix a few small bugs and improve parsing of limits.
Full release information. - 26th January 2014 - Leaflet router preview
- A Leaflet
version of the web pages will be included in the next release. Previews of
the new Leaflet version and
OpenLayers version
of the updated router are available for trial.
Please report any problems - use the e-mail address at the bottom of the page. - 13th January 2014 - French translations added
- A French translation of the router web page and route instructions will be
included in the next release. The existing router has been updated already
and the two changed files can be downloaded
here and
here.
More translations are always welcome - use the e-mail address at the bottom of the page. - 6th July 2013 - Version 2.6 of Routino released
- Much faster database generation and faster routing (especially for slim
mode). Simpler compile-time configuration (Makefile.conf). Improved data
visualiser with access to data parsing errors and the ability to see the
details of any item displayed.
Full release information. - 3rd June 2013 - Linux glibc v2.16 causes Routino slow-down
- Since version 2.16 of glibc the GNU C library used on Linux some floating
point operations have been changed to use software instead of the FPU
hardware. This slows down the Routino router by ~50%; this can be recovered
by adding the -ffast-math option to the CFLAGS variable in src/Makefile.
glibc bug report and discussion. - 20th April 2013 - Version 2.5.1 of Routino released
- Bug fixes for XML parsing (4-byte UTF-8), XML quoting (7-bit ASCII special
chars), installation documentation and routing for some special case short
routes.
Full release information. - 9th February 2013 - Version 2.5 of Routino released
- New XML parser and PBF and O5M/O5C parsing and reading of bzip2 or gzip
compressed files. More complex tag parsing configuration file options and
more tags processed.
Full release information. - 9th February 2013 - 32-bit nodes
- The highest node identifier in the OpenStreetMap database has just passed
2147483648 (2^31) but Routino uses unsigned 32-bit integers and will
continue working unchanged.
Numerical limits information. - 17th December 2012 - Version 2.4.1 of Routino released
- Some bug fixes, most importantly the inability to find routes that have
low preferences (e.g. motorcar across ferry routes using default profile).
Full release information. - 8th December 2012 - Version 2.4 of Routino released
- The planetsplitter program can now append OSM change files (OSC) to an
existing database. Some speed increases in planetsplitter data processing
and improvements to default tag processing and error messages.
Full release information. - 6th October 2012 - Version 2.3.2 of Routino released
- Some routing bug fixes (barriers, oneway loops) and fix missing route instructions.
Full release information. - 11th August 2012 - Version 2.3.1 of Routino released
- Many bug fixes for web pages mainly related to waypoint editing.
Full release information.
Also fixed the name lookup CGI on this server. - 21st July 2012 - Version 2.3 of Routino released
- Mostly improvements to the web pages but also a slight decrease in
database generation time and some bug fixes.
Full release information. - 3rd March 2012 - Version 2.2 of Routino released
- Much reduced database size by removing unneeded nodes and segments,
describe roundabouts much better in routing instructions.
Full release information. - 12th November 2011 - Version 2.1.2 of Routino released
- Much faster routing (again), improve some translated outputs, add Russian translations.
Full release information. - 23rd October 2011 - Version 2.1.1 of Routino released
- Much faster routing, handle the 'except' tag of turn restrictions.
Full release information. - 3rd October 2011 - Version 2.1 of Routino released
- Improve the OSM parsing, include transport specific tag processing files
and optionally create an error log file listing problems found during
parsing.
Full release information. - 4th August 2011 - Version 2.0.3 of Routino released
- A bug fix release for various small routing fixes and to stop crashes on
64-bit machines.
Full release information. - 26th June 2011 - Version 2.0.2 of Routino released
- A bug fix release to stop crashes on 64-bit machines.
Full release information. - 7th June 2011 - Version 2.0.1 of Routino released
- A bug fix release to stop crashes on some invalid turn restrictions.
Full release information.
Also fix the online demonstration which stopped working at the time of the version 2.0 update. - 30th May 2011 - Version 2.0 of Routino released
- This version adds in handling of turn restrictions (the simplest type
defined by way, node & way) as well as fixing a few bugs.
Full release information. - 13th November 2010 - Version 1.5.1 of Routino released
- This version fixes a few bugs that caused planetsplitter to crash for some
users.
Full release information. - 30th October 2010 - Translations Required
- Routino is designed to allow language specific versions of the router web page as well as the files that are generated by the router. Currently there are only a small number of translations but to improve Routino we are looking for more. Any offers of translated files will be welcomed.
- 30th October 2010 - Version 1.5 of Routino released
- The main new features in this version are the addition of routing on
ferrys, recognition of barriers (node properties) and new highway properties
for walking and cycling routes.
Full release information. - 10th July 2010 - Version 1.4.1 of Routino released
- This version fixes a few serious bugs, reduces memory usage and therefore
increases routing speed.
Full release information. - 21st June 2010 - This website created
- All Routino data transfered across.
- 31st May 2010 - Version 1.4 of Routino released
- The primary new features in version 1.4 are the addition of configuration
files containing tagging rules, routing profiles and translations for the
output files.
Full release information. - 21st January 2010 - Version 1.3 of Routino released
- The main focus of the version 1.3 release is adding new features like
highway properties, some new transport types, start/via/end points within
segments and turn instructions.
Full release information. - 21st October 2009 - Version 1.2 of Routino released
- The primary focus of the version 1.2 release was optimisation of routing
speed and reduction in database size, there were also a small number of
new features.
Full release information. - 13th June 2009 - Version 1.1 of Routino released
- The main changes in version 1.1 were the addition of a set of web-pages
(including Javascript map using OpenLayers) to allow a Routino
web-server to be configured easily.
Full release information. - 8th April 2009 - Version 1.0 of Routino released
- The first formal release.
Full release information. - 22nd March 2009 - First announcement
- Prototype, unnamed, router announced on OpenStreetMap mailing list.
First announcement.
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