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255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;"><b>Introducing LABS.OpenRouteService.org with Open Space
Routing and the Places POI search API</b></p>
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255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;">Some of the results from our research are transformed
into stable and professionally managed services, that are used by
the wider public. A prominent example is<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://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.org</a>.
Since it’s introduction in early 2008 it has been transformed now
to a rigorously tested rich<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/OpenRouteService/ors-api/"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom:
1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">API </a>that is hosted on a
cloud system and that can be integrated in other applications or
used from the our web client. Yet, there are many further
developments resulting from related research projects and
activities. These may not yet be as ripe, thoroughly tested or
well optimised as the main features provided through the core API
at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://OpenRouteService.org">http://OpenRouteService.org</a>. But still we feel that it is
sensible to demonstrate those early results also on a web site
dedicated to more experimental, early or research oriented ideas
and features, or those for which we only have limited data or
resources.</p>
<p 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;
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255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Therefore we
introduce<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://labs.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);">labs.openrouteservice.org</a></strong></p>
<p 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;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;">In contrast to the stable main page
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://openrouteservice.org">http://openrouteservice.org</a> in the ORS Labs as a start you
currently can find two specific new features, namely the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="padding:
0px; margin: 0px;">POI locations search</strong><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and “<strong
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Open Space Routing</strong>“.
The latter is available for pedestrian routing at the moment.
Labs.openrouteservice.org does support prototype services
restricted to <em style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Germany</em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>only.</p>
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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;">Based on your feedback and suggestions and as resources
are available we are happy to improve those further. At some point
when they meet our quality criteria we then can integrate them to
the core OpenRouteService on the main site and also support global
coverage.</p>
<p 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;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;">Let’s shortly introduce the very first new features:</p>
<p 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;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Open Space
Routing:</strong></p>
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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;">Routing usually relies on a road network. Open Spaces
such as squares are areas where pedestrians are allowed to walk
freely. They can be crossed in unlimited ways. Therefore usually
no (or only selected) routes are mapped in OpenStreetMap through
these areas (modelled as closed ways). Therefore a routing system
needs to generated virtual routes on those. We have evaluated
several approaches in terms of quality and consequences for
processing time and memory consumption and realised an improved
algorithm that achieves some balance and compromise between those
contradicting criteria. You can test the result for pedestrian
routing including open areas explicitly labeled as squares in OSM
at labs.openrouteservice.org for all of Germany.</p>
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color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, verdana, tahoma,
arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px; font-style: normal;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;"><a
href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/files/2017/06/orsthroughplaces12.jpeg"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);"><img
class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7488"
src="cid:part4.EFF8459B.76049359@uni-heidelberg.de" alt=""
style="padding: 4px 10px 10px 4px; margin: 0px; background:
url("img/shadow.gif") right bottom no-repeat;
border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-image:
initial; border-top: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238);
border-left: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238);" height="150"
width="150"></a><a
href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/files/2017/06/orsthroughplaces3.jpeg"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);"><img
class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7482"
src="cid:part6.776A7D13.8F45A3E5@uni-heidelberg.de" alt=""
style="padding: 4px 10px 10px 4px; margin: 0px; background:
url("img/shadow.gif") right bottom no-repeat;
border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-image:
initial; border-top: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238);
border-left: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238);" height="150"
width="150"></a><a
href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/files/2017/06/orsthroughplaces2b.jpeg"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);"><img
class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7501"
src="cid:part8.4EABED09.864BA48F@uni-heidelberg.de" alt=""
style="padding: 4px 10px 10px 4px; margin: 0px; background:
url("img/shadow.gif") right bottom no-repeat;
border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-image:
initial; border-top: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238);
border-left: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238);" height="150"
width="150"></a></p>
<p 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;"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">POI Search
“Places API”</strong></p>
<p 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;">Further labs.openrouteservice.org gives a early preview
to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><a
href="https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis/OpenRouteService/ors-api/4.1"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom:
1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">forthcoming Places API</a></strong>
through a first version of a query user interface for<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="padding:
0px; margin: 0px;">POI locations</strong><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>from OSM, that can be
shown on the map. You can query POIs around a point or a line
according to many<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://github.com/GIScience/openrouteservice-docs#places-response"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom:
1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">categories</a>.</p>
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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;"><a
href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/files/2017/06/orslabspoisearch.jpeg"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);"><img
class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7485"
src="cid:part12.29FAE8C6.BCE5E969@uni-heidelberg.de" alt=""
style="padding: 4px 10px 10px 4px; margin: 0px; background:
url("img/shadow.gif") right bottom no-repeat;
border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-image:
initial; border-top: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238);
border-left: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238);" height="171"
width="300"></a></p>
<p 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 are already working on further features for
Labs.openrouteservice.org and will add them to the site soon (e.g.
green routing). Stay tuned for future updates. Enjoy testing those
experimental features and we are looking forward to further ideas
and research cooperations.</p>
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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;">As a <a 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);">university</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and R&D innovation
center (<a href="http://heigit.org/" 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>)
we are always in search for new, interesting and challenging tasks
and projects. Several of these <a
href="http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/forschung_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);">projects</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>are related to mobility,
routing and navigation as well as the analysis and improvement of
user generated and free & open geographic information.</p>
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Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology
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