We cooperate on routing solutions with company RouteWare (Denmark). It offers product RW NetServer.

RW NetServer 3.10

Main routing features:

• Driving descriptions (e.g. 1.5 miles down Main Street, turn left, etc.)
• Shortest or fastest path
• Find nearest facility: Where is the nearest, e.g. petrol station ?
• Support for turn restrictions
• Dynamic segmentation
• On-line administration of street network (for roadworks, etc.)
• Travelling salesman optimization
• Isochrones which show how far you can get in e.g. 10 minutes
• Results can be stored as TAB/SHP/MIF/GML2 files for fast display, streamed to the client or accessed through arrays
• Easy access to routing results from many clients (sample code included)
• Very fast

Server features:

• True application server technology.
• Application server and route server in one exe file (easy setup).
• Runs on Win32 or Linux (Intel) platforms.
• Multi-threaded
• Full failover and loadbalancing features for scalability from one server to large cluster setups.
• Automatic configurable pooling of street network and calculation objects for best performance.
• Windows Performance Monitor support for server performance insight (Win32).

Clients (all native):

• Active-X (asp)
• C/C++
• C# (Compact Framework compatible)
• Delphi
• Java SE
• PHP
• SOAP access

RW NetServer runs completely independently of GIS systems, but can import road networks in these formats: TAB, SHP, MIF or CGF.

RW NetServer can be used in conjunction with MapXtreme, ArcIMS, MapServer etc. to show routes on a map.