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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>
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          href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/files/2016/07/ors-hawaii.jpg"><img
            src="cid:part3.00010502.06030603@uni-heidelberg.de" alt=""
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            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
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          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>
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            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>
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            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=""
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            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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