The traveling salesman problem is the problem of finding the shortest possible route through a given set of locations whereby each loaction must only be visited once and the traveling saleman must return to its start location. A very good introduction into traveling salesman problems has been done by William Cook. It is fun to […]
Since several months we’ve been working on the Route Optimization API – a new part of the GraphHopper Directions API. And today it goes into beta status, i.e. we trust the software and our architecture enough that it can be used in production. Although it is used in production already we allowed us to change […]
There are so many misunderstanding of self-driving cars that I thought a full blog post instead of just a tweet is necessary. How it all began The creators of K.I.T.T. created also the dream in many, now grown-up engineers to let people do something else while driving. Obviously they weren’t the first with the idea […]
From now on our route planner GraphHopper Maps allows not only foot, car and bike routing, we’ve also added motorcycle, mountain bike and racing bike: This means all other applications using our Directions API are now able to use more vehicle types as well and offer their users a more specific routing experience and a […]
We are happy to announce that Stefan from jsprit will join forces with GraphHopper and together we’ll not only create a flexible and fast routing engine with optimization features in our Directions API but also push forward the business with GraphHopper in general – stay tuned 🙂 ! Open Source Projects What does this mean […]
English version below Heute haben wir, Stefan Schröder and Peter Karich, einen der 5 Hauptpreise des Gründerwettbewerbs IKT Innovativ gewonnen der auf der IFA verliehen wurde. Über 200 Ideenskizzen wurden eingereicht und wir sind hoch erfreut, dass die Jury sich u.a. auch für uns entschieden hat. In der Presse wurde darüber wie folgt berichtet: Offizielle […]
