Free, open and collaborative routing service

A nice feature of this service is the ability to generate &#x27;isochrones&#x27; - a visual display of how far you can travel from an origin within different time-duration bounds.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.openrouteservice.org&#x2F;reach?n1=8.992583&amp;n2=-79.600754&amp;n3=11&amp;a=8.998822,-79.602424&amp;b=1f&amp;i=0&amp;j1=90&amp;j2=15&amp;k1=en-US&amp;k2=km" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.openrouteservice.org&#x2F;reach?n1=8.992583&amp;n2=-79.60...</a>

Very impressive! Seems to have trouble with my address in the UK, but accepted postcodes just fine. The ability to select not just different transport types but sub-types (i.e. normal bike or e-bike) is very nice.<p>Loving the wheelchair option :-) that&#x27;s not something I&#x27;ve seen before, but now I&#x27;ve seen it - It&#x27;s a blindlingly obvious accessibility feature...

Really nice!<p>They appear to use a forked version of Graphhopper [1] [2] for route calculation.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.graphhopper.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.graphhopper.com&#x2F;</a> [2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphhopper.com&#x2F;maps" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphhopper.com&#x2F;maps</a>

I&#x27;ll tell you more, if you need routing for yourself then open-source OsmAnd has offline routing on Android and, probably, iOS. Info on public transport is not perfect but more than usable where I am. That&#x27;s in addition to the tons of information from OSM: from local businesses to features specific to maritime navigation, flying and horse-riding.<p>The only thing that it misses is info on traffic load—which might be tricky to gather for a FOSS service while critically depending on the quantity of collected data.

Wow, the user interface is very fluent. It has a lot of options, that&#x27;s really powerful. Amazing how far you can come with a Google maps-like interface in 2020.<p>As a German citizen, I enjoy that the basis data (only OSM?) is really good. This seems to be a project based on the University at Heidelberg. That&#x27;s a pretty hilly area, maybe that&#x27;s why they focus so much on height elevation :-)

thought this had something to do with internet routing and got excited :)

This is great! Well, except for the fact it hijacks my back button and my local map is out of date by at least 6 months.<p>But, I love that this is open.

I appreciate the inclusion of cycling as a transportation mode (<i>glares at Apple maps</i>) when looking for directions. Comparing two of my regular routes, the options given are actually preferable to what Google Maps suggests (to the point of being the routes I would normally take anyway to take advantage of less car heavy routes).

I note that this has an API which is free but with rate limits (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openrouteservice.org&#x2F;plans&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openrouteservice.org&#x2F;plans&#x2F;</a>). Is the intention in future to have plans that charge for usage above these limits?

The OSM Wiki page on OpenRouteService (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OpenRouteService" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OpenRouteService</a>) might be worth checking out, too.

Unfortunately, Graphhopper (and this) has a problem with routing on bridleways in Great Britain. It seems to be a very old issue but I&#x27;m still experiencing it now. It makes it not very useful for walking in GB.

Darn. When I saw the title, for a second I thought this was someone else I could get to advertise a &#x2F;22 for me instead of AT&amp;T.<p>But this is neat, too.

Not IP packet routing then?

This is really awesome!

At first glance it looks quite nice compared to the other OSM routing software I&#x27;ve used.<p>For instance, when going to a certain large hardware store, OsmAnd basically told me to pull over off the Interstate and hoof it up to the store, instead of actually routing me off the highway and into the parking lot.<p>This site seems to do it correctly, which is nice!

Why!? Another web page hijacking my back button!!

I love it!

Is this another one of those things like openmaptiles.com which is technically open but they don&#x27;t really provide the tooling to generate new tiles and getting a copy of the tiles costs either thousands of dollars or you can only get versions that are 3+ years out of date? And also none of the tools are actually open source, or the ones that are go completely undocumented and don&#x27;t actually work?<p>&#x2F;rant