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<p><b>New Disaster OpenRouteService for Africa, South America and
Indonesia released</b><br>
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="padding:
0px; margin: 0px;" lang="EN-US">Recently<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
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target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34);
border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">HeiGIT</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>@<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://uni-heidelberg.de/gis"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34);
border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">GIScience
Heidelberg</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>released
a dedicated stable<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
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href="https://disaster.openrouteservice.org/"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34);
border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">disaster
version</a>of <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.openrouteservice.org/" target="_blank"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;
color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153,
102, 51);">OpenRouteService</a></span><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="padding:
0px; margin: 0px;" lang="EN-US">to support humanitarian
logistics within specific regions of catastrophes.</span><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Since his start in 2008
OpenRouteServivce had been spontaneously applied for specific
real world disaster cases already numerous times, for instance
during the earthquakes in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/presse/news2010/pm100115_haiti_en.html"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom:
1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">Haiti</a>2008 and 2010, in<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
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href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2015/05/06/heidelberg-university-press-releases-about-nepal-disaster-openrouteservice/"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom:
1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">Nepal</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>2015, and in<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2016/04/20/disaster-openrouteservice-for-ecuador/"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom:
1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">Equador</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>2016. Yet this always
involved manual effort to set the system up for the specific
disaster which costed time and manpower. For this reason this
was only manageable for specific larger disasters. In order to
provide this tool with most recent data to humanitarian
organisations and affected people in a more stable, reliable and
automated way that covers also smaller disasters without manual
intervention, the routing and disaster teams at HeiGIT jointly
developed this new dedicated disaster ORS.</p>
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verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="padding:
0px; margin: 0px;" lang="EN-US">Basically the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
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href="http://www.disaster.openrouteservice.org/"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34);
border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">Disaster
OpenRouteService</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is
an adjusted version of the OpenRouteService which specifically
serves the cause of routing considering specific meta
information about passable ways from OpenStreetMap. It is
constantly running on three individual and interchangeable
regions in a distributed cloud environment. For the moment and
first version these three instances cover<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="padding:
0px; margin: 0px;">Africa, South America and Indonesia</em>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px;
line-height: 1.8em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial,
verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="padding:
0px; margin: 0px;" lang="EN-US">The system has the exceptional
ability to navigate on the most up-to-date OSM data added by
disaster mappers as data and graph updates are currently
computed daily for the whole regions covered. This allows to
account for a high user activity and data adjustment rate in
OSM during disaster situations, where both the real world
situation, as well as the data in OSM are changing in very
dynamic way.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>We
are working on providing even more frequent update circles in
the future in order to provide the best and most recent
available OSM data to the disaster relief organisations, our
partner the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://hotosm.org/"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom:
1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
(HOT)</a>and affected people as fast as possible in a fully
automated manner.</p>
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line-height: 1.8em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial,
verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="padding:
0px; margin: 0px;" lang="EN-US">Moreover, similar to the
conventional ORS the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Disaster OpenRouteService<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>also
provides an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">accessibility analysis</strong><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>service (calculating
fast<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2017/04/29/openrouteservice-with-new-api-functions-and-look/"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34);
border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">isochrones</a>)
for a given location, the possibility to export GPS tracks to
be used offline in mobile devices, and of course the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">interactive<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong></span><strong
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">avoid area tool</strong>.
The latter allows to interactively draw polygons into the map
which mark severely affected, not accessible, or impassable
regions or road sections which should be avoided for navigation,
or are potentially valuable for Search and Rescue (SAR) units.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px;
line-height: 1.8em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial,
verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="padding:
0px; margin: 0px;" lang="EN-US">Similar to the
OpenRouteService, the web application and the directions are
already fully available in 7<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">languages</strong>,
namely English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian,
and Chinese. Other languages, such as Greek, Hungarian,
Italian, Dutch, Polish, Czech or Nepali are partially
available as well (mostly directions). In order to make the
Disaster OpenRouteService applicable for disaster managers,
first responders and affected people all around the world,
please help us to update the translations and provide<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">your language<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GzFPlVrqJBmUatfWft7v-vS_tfENGtAy0RHOv_5n3SU/edit#gid=0"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34);
border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">here</a>.</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px;
line-height: 1.8em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial,
verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">In addition to the
usage via the web application the API endpoint can be integrated
in dedicated applications (e.g. QGIS Plugins) etc. Please
contact us for further investigations. Stay tuned for future
enhancements.</p>
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verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://disaster.openrouteservice.org/" target="_blank"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;
color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153,
102, 51);">https://disaster.openrouteservice.org</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px;
line-height: 1.8em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial,
verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">We cordially do thank
the Klaus Tschira Foundation, Heidelberg for the financial
support and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team for the helpful
hints and insights, as well as the whole OSM community for their
valuable efforts in generating relevant and up2date geographic
data.<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">
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GIScience Research Group Heidelberg University
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://uni-heidelberg.de/gis">http://uni-heidelberg.de/gis</a>
Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://heigit.org">http://heigit.org</a> </pre>
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