[Geo4All] Celebrating 10 Years of Openrouteservice - The First OpenStreetMap Route Planner - and much more

[Suchith Anand]

Congrats Alexander and all colleagues.


Best wishes,


Suchith


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From: GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Alexander Zipf <zipf at uni-heidelberg.de>
Sent: 13 April 2018 07:30
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Subject: [Geo4All] Celebrating 10 Years of Openrouteservice - The First OpenStreetMap Route Planner - and much more



Amazing 10 years ago openrouteservice.org (ORS) came online for the very first time. Back then it was the very first online routing service consuming data from OpenStreetMap.org covering larger areas. So to say it is ‘the original‘ OSM routing service. It initially started with Germany only and soon provided routing for Europe and finally the street network covered the whole globe.

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 the current openrouteservice team<https://openrouteservice.org/team/> and further contributors at HeiGIT<http://heigit.org/> and GIScience Heidelberg<http://uni-heidelberg.de/gis>. 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 free API for external users with all different kinds of services and options.

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 one of the oldest OSM projects, serving thousands of users and for example even the national German Federal Agency of Cartography and Geodesy (BKG<http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2017/10/20/operouteservice-partners-with-bkg-and-releases-new-features/>).

The latest list of functionalities includes not only routing, geocoding or isochrones (faster and better than ever) on an interactive web map (maps.openrouteservice.org)<https://maps.openrouteservice.org/>, but APIs<https://openrouteservice.org/services/> for those and further services such as time-distance matrix<http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2018/01/17/new-openrouteservice-matrix-api-to-speed-up-batch-routing-calculations/> calculations or an new POI API<http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2018/04/11/open-poi-service-helps-you-find-points-of-interest/> - all with professional documentation<https://openrouteservice.docs.apiary.io/#>. ORS supports more specialised routing profiles than ever: from heavy vehicles, wheelchairs, e-bikes to fitness-level biking<http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2017/01/24/openrouteservice-introduces-e-bike-and-level-of-fitness/> and others with many options each. Several dedicated ORS instances for disaster response are updated on high frequency<http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2018/03/07/openrouteservice-for-disaster-management-supporting-humanitarian-logistics-with-hourly-updates/>. The isochrone service now supports population statistics<http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2018/02/28/ors-avoid-countries-population-statistics-geojson/>, there is a QGIS plugin<http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/OSMtools/>, geoJSON support, a very handy Python library<https://github.com/GIScience/openrouteservice-py> and - spoiler alert - soon a library for R users will be introduced. So stay tuned for the future!

As provided by a research institution obviously several research prototypes are available, too, e.g. for healthy green<http://giscienceblog.uni-hd.de/2017/07/03/healthy-routing-prefering-green-areas-added-to-openrouteserviceorg/>& quiet<http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2017/07/10/reducing-stress-by-avoiding-noise-with-quiet-routing-in-openrouteservice/> routing, Landmark based navigation<http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2017/07/14/adding-landmark-based-navigation-instructions-to-openrouteservice/>, routing across open spaces<http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2017/11/27/routing-through-open-spaces-%E2%80%93-a-performance-comparison-of-algorithms/> and much more… And everything is open source on GitHub.<https://github.com/giscience/openrouteservice>

As a special birthday present a series of JUPYTER notebook examples <https://openrouteservice.org/example-optimize-pub-crawl-with-ors/> on how to use the ORS API will be offered.  This starts with - of course - a pub-crawl<https://openrouteservice.org/example-optimize-pub-crawl-with-ors/>. Enjoy!
[http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/files/2018/04/10thanniversaryors-300x237.jpg]<http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/files/2018/04/10thanniversaryors.jpg>

Further information on ORS and related activities can be found in the GIScience Blog<http://giscienceblog.uni-hd.de/?s=openrouteservice> and of course at Openrouteservice.org<http://openrouteservice.org/>.

[http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/files/2018/04/openrouteservice_small-300x81.png]<http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/files/2018/04/openrouteservice_small.png>

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