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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Alexander Zipf <zipf@uni-heidelberg.de><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 13 April 2018 07:30<br>
<b>To:</b> geoforall@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Geo4All] Celebrating 10 Years of Openrouteservice - The First OpenStreetMap Route Planner - and much more</font>
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<font size="+1"><span style="padding:0px; margin:0px"><span>Amazing</span></span><strong style="padding:0px; margin:0px"><span>
</span>10 years<span> </span></strong>ago<span> </span><strong style="padding:0px; margin:0px">openrouteservice.org</strong><span> (ORS)
</span>came online for the very first time. Back then it was the very first online routing service consuming data from<span> </span><em style="padding:0px; margin:0px">OpenStreetMap.org</em><span> </span>covering larger areas. So to say it is ‘<em style="padding:0px; margin:0px">the
original</em>‘ OSM routing service. It initially started with Germany only and soon provided routing for Europe and finally the street network covered the whole globe.</font></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-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2; text-align:left; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font size="+1"><em style="padding:0px; margin:0px"></em>Pascal Neis did a magnificent job with developing the first version, which was embedded in a project on disaster management, which still is a major topic for<span> </span><a href="https://openrouteservice.org/team/" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk952395" previewremoved="true">the
current openrouteservice team</a><span> </span>and further contributors at<span> </span><a href="http://heigit.org/" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk401969" previewremoved="true">HeiGIT</a><span> </span>and<a href="http://uni-heidelberg.de/gis" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk928266" previewremoved="true"><span> </span>GIScience
Heidelberg</a>. Since the already impressive beginnings a lot of new features have been added over the years, the whole system has been iteratively enhanced and now HeiGIT is proud to provide a<span> </span><strong style="padding:0px; margin:0px">free API</strong><span> </span>for
external users with all different kinds of services and options.</font></p>
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<font size="+1">It was a long - and sometimes hard - way from a university project with a single server to a professional and mature API infrastructure and it is great to see that GIScience Heidelberg managed to keep it alive and kicking over such a long period
of time. This puts it among<span> </span><em style="padding:0px; margin:0px">one of the oldest OSM projects</em>, serving thousands of users and for example even the national German Federal Agency of Cartography and Geodesy (<a href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2017/10/20/operouteservice-partners-with-bkg-and-releases-new-features/" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed
rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk109078" previewremoved="true">BKG</a>).</font></p>
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<font size="+1">The latest list of functionalities includes not only <b>routing</b>,
<b>geocoding</b> or <b>isochrones</b> (faster and better than ever) on an<span> </span><a href="https://maps.openrouteservice.org/" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk826615" previewremoved="true">interactive
web map (maps.openrouteservice.org)</a>, but<span> </span><a href="https://openrouteservice.org/services/" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed
rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk645455" previewremoved="true">APIs</a><span> </span>for
those and further services such as<span> </span><b><a href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2018/01/17/new-openrouteservice-matrix-api-to-speed-up-batch-routing-calculations/" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed
rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk599119" previewremoved="true">time-distance
matrix</a></b><span> </span>calculations or an new <b><a href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2018/04/11/open-poi-service-helps-you-find-points-of-interest/" id="LPlnk911083" previewremoved="true">POI API</a>
</b>- all with<span> </span><a href="https://openrouteservice.docs.apiary.io/#" target="_blank" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk954592" previewremoved="true">professional
documentation</a>. ORS supports more specialised routing profiles </font><font size="+1"><font size="+1">than ever:
</font>from heavy vehicles, wheelchairs,<span> </span><a href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2017/01/24/openrouteservice-introduces-e-bike-and-level-of-fitness/" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed
rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk741650" previewremoved="true">e-bikes
to fitness-level biking</a><span> </span>and others with many options each. Several dedicated ORS<span> </span><a href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2018/03/07/openrouteservice-for-disaster-management-supporting-humanitarian-logistics-with-hourly-updates/" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed
rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk382494" previewremoved="true">instances
for disaster response are updated on high frequency</a>. The isochrone service now<span> </span><a href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2018/02/28/ors-avoid-countries-population-statistics-geojson/" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed
rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk166463" previewremoved="true">supports
population statistics</a>, there is a<span> </span><a href="http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/OSMtools/" target="_blank" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk226731" previewremoved="true">QGIS
plugin</a>, geoJSON support, a very handy<span> </span><a href="https://github.com/GIScience/openrouteservice-py" target="_blank" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk189578" previewremoved="true">Python
library</a><span> </span>and - spoiler alert - soon a library for<span> </span><strong style="padding:0px; margin:0px">R</strong><span> </span>users will be introduced. So stay tuned for the future!</font></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-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2; text-align:left; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font size="+1">As provided by a research institution obviously several research prototypes are available, too, e.g. for healthy<span> </span><a href="http://giscienceblog.uni-hd.de/2017/07/03/healthy-routing-prefering-green-areas-added-to-openrouteserviceorg/" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed
rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk393911" previewremoved="true">green</a>&<span> </span><a href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2017/07/10/reducing-stress-by-avoiding-noise-with-quiet-routing-in-openrouteservice/" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed
rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk418717" previewremoved="true">quiet</a><span> </span>routing,<span> </span><a href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2017/07/14/adding-landmark-based-navigation-instructions-to-openrouteservice/" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed
rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk104519" previewremoved="true">Landmark
based navigation</a>, routing<span> </span><a href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2017/11/27/routing-through-open-spaces-%E2%80%93-a-performance-comparison-of-algorithms/" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed
rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk329812" previewremoved="true">across
open spaces</a><span> </span>and much more… And everything is<span> </span><b><a href="https://github.com/giscience/openrouteservice" target="_blank" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk92028" previewremoved="true">open
source on GitHub.</a></b></font></p>
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<font size="+1">As a special birthday present a series of<span> </span><a href="https://openrouteservice.org/example-optimize-pub-crawl-with-ors/" target="_blank" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk609388" previewremoved="true">JUPYTER
notebook examples<span> </span></a>on how to use the ORS API will be offered. This starts with - of course -<span> </span><a href="https://openrouteservice.org/example-optimize-pub-crawl-with-ors/" target="_blank" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk899879" previewremoved="true">a
pub-crawl</a>. Enjoy! <br style="padding:0px; margin:0px">
<a href="http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/files/2018/04/10thanniversaryors.jpg" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed
rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk607085" previewremoved="true"><img alt="" class="x_alignmiddle x_size-medium x_wp-image-9010" width="300" height="237" style="padding:4px 10px 10px 4px; margin:0px; background:url("img/shadow.gif") right bottom
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<font size="+1">Further information on ORS and related activities can be found in the<span> </span><a href="http://giscienceblog.uni-hd.de/?s=openrouteservice" style="padding:0px; margin:0px; text-decoration:none; color:rgb(119,34,34); border-bottom:1px dashed
rgb(153,102,51)" id="LPlnk160897" previewremoved="true">GIScience
Blog</a><span> </span>and of course at<span> </span><a href="http://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)" id="LPlnk163160" previewremoved="true">Openrouteservice.org</a>.</font></p>
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