Today we are proud to release version 0.5 of our open source road routing engine GraphHopper. Try it out on GraphHopper Maps: We’ve improved the GraphHopper core and the GraphHopper Directions API which now includes route optimization. Download now via maven snippet or zip package. A big thanks for this 0.5 release goes again to […]
Since several months we’ve been working on our new Route Optimization API, which is a powerful API for your problems in logistics and similar areas. It includes time windows, capacity restrictions and much more features. It’ll be announced soon on its own! Last week we had an idea: we wanted to make the integration of […]
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 […]
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: […]
