Take BRouter to the Next Level?

[Franco Fuzzilocca]

Hello BRouters, hello all,

I came across BRouter and co. this week. Really nice set of tools!

Anyway, now that komoot is terminally ill and will pass away, I thought of giving an opensource tool a go. BRouter web is a nice little app, written in languages I know (JS/HMTL/CSS + Java) and with lots of nice goodies and things to hack and improve. Basically it covers 85% I need to plan and save my road bike, gravel and mtb routes.

As for myself: I did a lot of open src web gis, open layers, open gis services, java desktop gis, postgis, map server, "u dig" all of that stuff. That was in a different life, but I'd love to code again for fun and for the community.

How is the currently development in brouter web? Have I arrived late at the party? (Github seems a little dormant.)

I don't have time/energy/money to run a whole project, and the current instances of brouter web show the potential. But I do have time to do some web coding. (Backend ist great. Web is lovely, but needs some polishing. I have already hacked a few changes. Great stuff!)

Sorry for the long post!

Cheers,

Fuzzi

[Sven Geggus]

Franco Fuzzilocca schrieb am Montag, den 24. März um 19:56 Uhr:

> I don't have time/energy/money to run a whole project, and the current
> instances of brouter web show the potential. But I do have time to do some
> web coding. (Backend ist great. Web is lovely, but needs some polishing. I
> have already hacked a few changes. Great stuff!)

If you want to go full force, AFAIK Norbert ist still looking for a new
Maintainer.

https://github.com/nrenner/brouter-web/issues/791

There is also https://bikerouter.de/ by Marcus Jaschen, which is AFAIK a
patched version of BRouter Web.

Regards

Sven


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[Manuel Fuhr]

Hi Fuzzi,

On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM Franco Fuzzilocca <fuzzi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I came across BRouter and co. this week. Really nice set of tools!

Thanks for your kind words!

> As for myself: I did a lot of open src web gis, open layers, open gis services, java desktop gis, postgis, map server, "u dig" all of that stuff. That was in a different life, but I'd love to code again for fun and for the community.

I've contributed to BRouter in the past, but currently lack the time,
so I fully understand your struggle.

> How is the currently development in brouter web? Have I arrived late at the party? (Github seems a little dormant.)

You arrive pretty late, because brouter-web is currently unmaintained,
but still in frequent use on brouter.de and bikerouter.de

> I don't have time/energy/money to run a whole project, and the current instances of brouter web show the potential. But I do have time to do some web coding. (Backend ist great. Web is lovely, but needs some polishing. I have already hacked a few changes. Great stuff!)

Both mentioned instances are currently providing up to date routing
tiles & routing, so improving the codebase would already be a
tremendous help.

> Sorry for the long post!

Don't worry, I think it's good to write a lengthy post to give some
background information.

Regards

Manuel

[Franco Fuzzilocca]

Hello all,

thanks for the quick replies! There might be hope, after all. I don't mind contributing to brouter web or any of the forks, as long there's chance that my improvements (if any : -)=) land on a running instance that is usable to me. Of the tools I tried, brouter and web came closest to the route digitising on komoot, which has flaws (who hasn't?) but is smooth and fast.

Yeah, I reckon I could do a lot for the web codebase. It would not be my first web map application ;-). As for myself: I used to hang around fossgis, but that was ages ago. I'm actually based in DE, like some of the folk here. I would code for the pure fun of writing a bike route UI that I'd use to plan my own weekend rides. (Eat your own dog food principle.)

See if some one from brouter.de or bikerouter.de is interested.

Danke & Grüße,

Fuzzi