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Releasing the Map Matching API

Today we are proud to release our Map Matching API as part of our Directions API. It is a web service based on one of our open source components. You can use it to snap measured GPS points to a digital road network to e.g. clean data or attach certain data to it like turn […]

GraphHopper Meeting Berlin, July

On 13. July, Wednesday, from 16:00 to 17:30 we’ll hold the first GraphHopper meeting at Beuth University, Haus Bauwesen, room D 451. We’ll have the following topics: Introductory talk about the GraphHopper routing and current development You are invited to show us your projects based on GraphHopper. Hands on workshop, where one of the topics […]

GraphHopper Routing Engine 0.7 Released

Today we are happy to announce the new release of our open source road routing engine GraphHopper 0.7. It includes many improvements as well as a new round trip calculation for the flexibility mode. A big thanks for this release goes to all of our contributors and translators! To become a contributor see our contributing […]

Alternative Roads to Rome

The roads to rome project from Moovel Labs is a nice visualization of the possibilities with GraphHopper. And it is only the start. While investigating and debugging the quality of alternative routes – a new feature from GraphHopper – we stumbled over the necessity to do a very similar visualizations. The visualization of the so […]

Visiting every pub in Dublin

In our last blog post we elaborated the problem of finding a route through Dublin without passing by any Pub. Rory gave us the idea for this, and now again, pointed us to an article reporting that recently there was a Japanese man trying to visit each and every pub to drink a pint of […]

There won’t be many driverless cars in this century

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 […]