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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://openrouteservice.org"
target="_blank">OpenRouteService (ORS) </a>was the first
routing service based on OpenStreetMap in early 2008 that covered
full countries. Thanks to OSM data ORS also introduced the first
international pedestrian and bicycle routing, even before e.g.
Google was offering this.<br>
<p> Since 2008 OpenRouteService has been constantly available
online and over the years it evolved from covering individual
states in the beginning to the whole of Europe to several
continents - basically the whole globe without North and South
America.<br>
Because of limitations of available computing resources we at<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://uni-heidelberg.de/gis"
target="_blank"> GIScience Heidelberg</a> were only very
recently able to add <strong>full global coverage</strong> to
OpenRouteService. <strong>But now OpenRouteService covers <strong>also
the Americas </strong>for all the main routing profiles</strong>,
e.g. for car, pedestrian, heavy vehicles, bikes - with several
options from MTB, road bike to safest bike route etc. You may
check the many options and ways to configure ORS (covering
dozens of combinations of routing options, languages and further
features).<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/files/2016/07/ors-hawaii.jpg"><img
src="cid:part3.00010502.06030603@uni-heidelberg.de" alt=""
class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5810" width="300"
height="153"></a></p>
<p>Over the years ORS has been completely redeveloped both on the
server as well on the client side. For example it offers now a
reactive design for mobile smartphone users and many other
features.<br>
We appreciate suggestions from the community to <a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:openrouteservice@geog.uni-heidelberg.de"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:openrouteservice@geog.uni-heidelberg.de">openrouteservice@geog.uni-heidelberg.de</a></a></p>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/files/2016/07/ors-sf1.jpg"><img
src="cid:part6.07040805.07020200@uni-heidelberg.de" alt=""
class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5812" width="300"
height="161"></a><br>
Also the Isochrones calculated through the Accessibility
Analysis are now available worldwide for the different
transportaion modes.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/files/2016/07/orsisochrone-riodejaneiro.jpg"><img
src="cid:part8.03080008.03040701@uni-heidelberg.de" alt=""
class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5818" width="300"
height="186"></a></p>
<p>Currently only the wheelchair option is not yet available for
the Americas, but ORS is providing wheelchair routing for the
rest of the world. Of course the relevant specific information
for supporting this routing profile needs to be available in
OpenStreetMap and there is still a lot to be mapped anywhere
with respect to this.</p>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/files/2016/07/ors-chile.jpg"><img
src="cid:part10.03030105.02010701@uni-heidelberg.de" alt=""
class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5811" width="300"
height="231"></a></p>
<p>We do thank the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://klaus-tschira-stiftung.de" target="_blank">Klaus
Tschira Stiftung</a> Heidelberg for their support to establish
the “<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/heigit_en.html"
target="_blank">Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation
Technology</a>” (HeiGIT), which provides further resources for
extending OpenRouteService in a more sustainable way.</p>
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