openrouteservice

🌍 The open source route planner api with plenty of features.

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Does anybody have any recommendations on self-hosted ways to create isochrone maps? I've been looking at OpenRouteService, Valhalla, and OpenTripPlanner, but I'm finding it difficult to compare them. Don't seem to be many "experience reports" online. - https://github.com/GIScience/openrouteservice - https://github.com/valhalla/valhalla - https://github.com/opentripplanner/OpenTripPlanner

I don't understand their business behind that, neither. Note however that on GitHub (https://github.com/GIScience/openrouteservice) they mention it as a "demonstration server".

The system is open source https://github.com/GIScience/openrouteservice (UI at http://maps.openrouteservice.org also shown in the screenshots) The system is based on the open source GraphHopper routing engine https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper (UI at https://graphhopper.com/maps/ and integrated on https://osm.org) So you can easily contribute to data (https://osm.org) or to one of these open source engines to achieve what you prefer. Personally I have the feeling that especially for walking and cycling they are already better in many areas than Google or similar but as a co-founder of GraphHopper I might be influenced ;)