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<p> <b>OpenRouteService 3.3 is going Mobile - Routing in the
Americas, Gradients and more!</b> </p>
<p>In our latest release we have primarily focused on optimising and
stabilising the backend and on adding new elements to provide an
improved user experience throughout the <strong><a
moz-do-not-send="true" title="ORS 3.3"
href="http://www.openrouteservice.org" target="_blank">OpenRouteService
3.3</a></strong> based on OpenStreetMap data.</p>
<p>After many requests from our community, we for starters can
happily announce that we have made the service <strong>responsive
for your mobile smartphones</strong>. You are now able to
compute your routes when you are on the go.<br>
Furthermore we have changed the styles and layout of the service
to ultimately bring the user experience to the next level. Amongst
these updates we are happily to feature:</p>
<ul>
<li>A new route summary, now also comprising <strong>ascent and
descent information</strong> for <em>outdoor profiles</em></li>
<li>The possibility to download <strong>GPX files containing
elevation</strong> information provided by the service</li>
<li>A more intuitive options menu giving you the option to <strong>parameterise
your route preferenes</strong></li>
<li>Several <strong>tooltips</strong> informing you with hints
for the specific buttons</li>
</ul>
<p>Please feel free to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:openrouteservice@geog.uni-heidelberg.de">send us</a>
any kind of feedback with suggestions or improvements.</p>
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class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5603"
src="cid:part3.03010306.06050805@uni-heidelberg.de" alt=""
width="455" height="221"></p>
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<p style="text-align: left">Additionally we have been working on
several novel features for all of you outdoor lovers. As you have
noticed in our last update we added height information in form of
an elevation profile for the bicycle, pedestrian and wheelchair
profile. We now actually started to crunch this information to
ultimately derive ascent and descent values along the route. By
doing so we created a new horizontal chart comprising the specific
gradients and its percentages which can be hovered and seen in the
map accordingly. As also requested by the ORS community we added
via points along the route into the elevation profile to increase
the readability.</p>
<p>And of course we have been improving the stability of the
service. In the course of this we upgraded our backend with
additional storage which gives us means to offer you <strong>car
routing capabilities for North and South America</strong>.</p>
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class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5610"
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width="455" height="221"></p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p style="text-align: left"><em>Happy Routing!</em></p>
<em> </em>
<p><em></em></p>
<p style="text-align: left">Links:</p>
<p style="text-align: left"> </p>
<ul>
<li><a moz-do-not-send="true" title="OpenRouteService Issues"
href="https://github.com/GIScience/openrouteservice/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed"
target="_blank">ORS Issues on GitHub.com</a></li>
<li><a moz-do-not-send="true" title="OpenRouteService.org"
href="http://www.openrouteservice.org" target="_blank">OpenRouteService.org</a></li>
<li><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:openrouteservice@geog.uni-heidelberg.de">Contact
us</a></li>
</ul>
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href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2016/06/27/openrouteservice-33-is-going-mobile-routing-in-the-americas-gradients-and-more/">http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2016/06/27/openrouteservice-33-is-going-mobile-routing-in-the-americas-gradients-and-more/</a><br>
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