openrouteservice.org

About openrouteservice.org

Openrouteservice is an open-source geospatial API platform built on OpenStreetMap data, developed by HeiGIT gGmbH. It provides routing and directions for cars, trucks, various bicycle profiles, walking, hiking, and wheelchair users, along with isochrones for reachability analysis, time-distance matrices for many-to-many route calculations, geocoding built on the Pelias stack, points-of-interest search, elevation data enrichment using SRTM data, and route optimization for vehicle routing problems based on the Vroom project.

The service is aimed at developers and organizations such as logistics companies, humanitarian and disaster-response actors, and researchers. It offers a disaster management client that recalculates routing graphs hourly for active disaster regions using data from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and Missing Maps project, as well as a general-purpose map client for interactive route planning. Access is available through a REST API, SDKs for Python, R, and JavaScript, and a QGIS plugin, with all code and clients open source and available on GitHub.

The isochrones service on maps.openrouteservice.org allows up to 500 requests per day for free. The platform has been used in analyses such as a New York Times investigation into subway accessibility for people with disabilities and a healthcare access study in Madagascar.

Key features

• Turn-by-turn directions for car, truck, bike, walking, hiking, and wheelchair profiles
• Isochrone reachability analysis by time or distance
• Many-to-many time-distance matrix computation
• Pelias-based geocoding for addresses and place names
• Points-of-interest search around a point, path, or polygon
• Route optimization for vehicle routing and traveling salesman problems

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