A map matching software makes your recorded GPS points ‘snap’ to some digital road network. E.g. the open source map matching component from GraphHopper is a highly customizable solution also available as SaaS. The following picture illustrates this map matching process from recorded data (blue) to matching data (green): But why is this ‘snap to […]

Nearly all electric vehicles to date that rely 100% on electric energy have a range problem, especially in cold seasons. The only exceptions are maybe Tesla and fuel cell driven cars with over 400km and some even over 500km range. If you still want to plan a longer-distance tour you’ll have to include one (or more) […]

Handling elevation data and combine it with OpenStreetMap can be a pain. And indeed it was when we implemented this for GraphHopper roughly one year ago. But we really wanted to make it easy for our users. And it is very easy – you just need to set: in the config.properties and GraphHopper will include […]

There are several users of GraphHopper. We have an already long but incomplete list including ‘older’ applications like Komoot or GPies. In the last months we have added some more – namely that are route.nl (Falk), Ride with GPS and Volo. Route.nl Quoting Sander van Tulden from Falk.nl:“We love Graphhopper 🙂 We use it in […]

As our Directions API currently does not include traffic data we still show you that it is possible to integrate traffic data into GraphHopper if you have the data. A few days ago I’ve blogged about a simple way to feed GraphHopper with generic traffic data from elsewhere. Today we look into one specific example: […]

The German news website heise online reported last week about the release of GraphHopper 0.4: Quelloffener Routenplaner GraphHopper in Version 0.4 erschienen Here is the, semi optimal ;), auto-translated text into English. Read here our official announcement.