What is this?

[willwhite]

I occasionally stumble across links to this project. @geohacker what is this used for? Do we still need it?

[geohacker]

@willwhite we used this sometime ago to add certain specific features that make it work well to open small components in JOSM, add more points etc. https://github.com/mapbox/osrm-frontend-v2/commits/mb-pages

@srividyacb do you think we still use this?
cc @batpad

[batpad]

@srividyacb can you confirm if we still use this? If not, I'd be more than happy to shut this down.

@willwhite - to give some context -- there were some specific things the data team needed while debugging directions request: mostly adding a small components layer, opening in JOSM, plus being able to use the Mapbox directions API instead of OSRM in tests that led to this hacky fork to unblock the team. If we no longer use it, I'd love to just shut it down. If we do use it, we should allocate time to push what we need upstream and then shut it down. @srividyacb would be great to hear from you - happy to setup a time to talk in detail if that helps.

[srividyacb]

@willwhite

We use this front end to investigate the failed routes as part of our Directions-QA work. We are still using this frontend as this plugs-in to latest Mapbox Directions API and have JOSM integration and easy to use interface to investigate the failure routes.

Before we decide to shut this down - Is there any other interface which help us to do these kind of QA work where we can see Small-components, JOSM and different also have different profiles based routing in single frontend?

cc @batpad

[willwhite]

@srividyacb take a look at https://www.mapbox.com/get-directions/, which now has a lot of the features you mentioned. It seems like the only thing that's missing from your list is access to the small-components layer. We can look into adding this.

How do you get this to from inside the osrm-frontend UI?

[willwhite]

@srividyacb can you take a look at the interface I linked to above? If that works, can we delete this repo?