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OpenStreetMap doesn’t have any official router associated with it. (Note that the basic router on openstreetmap.org is just a tech demo.) Instead, developers ar

OpenStreetMap doesn’t have any official router associated with it. (Note that the basic router on openstreetmap.org is just a tech demo.) Instead, developers are encouraged to come up with their own routers that take whatever features they feel important into account. For example, some routers based on OSM data pull in third-party publicly available elevation datasets. The most commonly used routers for bicycle touring – Brouter and Cycle.travel – certainly take elevation into account and helped me personally out all over the world. Brouter has a hiking mode, though it is still in beta, and perhaps there are hiking-specific elevation-aware routers out there.

petre 6y ago
There's OSRM and a very good commercial routing engine from Graphopper. I believe they also offer the core features as an opensource Java routing server. For cycling it has three separate profiles favouring one route over the other and two profiles for walking and hiking. The commercial version allows multi routing and route optimisation. You give it a fleet of vehicles and a number of POIs for them to visit and it splits the work between vehicles and optimally routes them.
2Gkashmiri 6y ago
I use osmand so that one is missing features
- Mediterraneo10 6y ago
  Brouter can be installed as a routing engine plugin for OSMAnd, it’s on the F-Droid repository. Also, recent versions of OSMAnd are elevation-aware anyway.
  - 2Gkashmiri 6y ago
    i did not know that. i will check it out
rmc 6y ago
> Note that the basic router on openstreetmap.org is just a tech demo Huh? On the OSM.org website you can use Graphhopper or OSRM routing engines. Both are not "tech demos", but proper real routing engines for real world use. They are hosted by volunteers, so you shouldn't rely on them to be free for everyone for ever. If you want to build a business on them, both OSRM & Graphhopper are open source & self hostable

petre 6y ago

There's OSRM and a very good commercial routing engine from Graphopper. I believe they also offer the core features as an opensource Java routing server. For cycling it has three separate profiles favouring one route over the other and two profiles for walking and hiking. The commercial version allows multi routing and route optimisation. You give it a fleet of vehicles and a number of POIs for them to visit and it splits the work between vehicles and optimally routes them.

2Gkashmiri 6y ago

I use osmand so that one is missing features

Mediterraneo10 6y ago
Brouter can be installed as a routing engine plugin for OSMAnd, it’s on the F-Droid repository. Also, recent versions of OSMAnd are elevation-aware anyway.
- 2Gkashmiri 6y ago
  i did not know that. i will check it out

rmc 6y ago

> Note that the basic router on openstreetmap.org is just a tech demo Huh? On the OSM.org website you can use Graphhopper or OSRM routing engines. Both are not "tech demos", but proper real routing engines for real world use. They are hosted by volunteers, so you shouldn't rely on them to be free for everyone for ever. If you want to build a business on them, both OSRM & Graphhopper are open source & self hostable