Graphhopper Directions API News October

A long silence for a young company can mean many different things. In our case it only means that we further concentrate on making our products better! We are very happy to improve the GraphHopper Directions API every week and keep you up to date with this newsletter.

We improved the Route Optimization API in various ways:

• We added a new maximum distance feature
• We tuned our algorithms to solve large scale problems (>> 50 vehicles and >> 300 locations) significantly: we are now much faster and even better.
• Now it is possible to minimize vehicles, see the documentation
• The API supports driving time dependent break scheduling
• You can use custom cost matrices e.g. to support indoor route optimization or custom ETAs
• The optimization response can now include route geometries
• We updated our tutorials
• More auto generated API clients are added and tested

We released version 0.8 of our open source routing engine coming now with 39 translations, which are directly available in the Routing API.

A new Map Matching API was released which does an automated ‘snap to road’ useful to improve recorded GPS traces:

A lot more is happening in the GraphHopper space: we had our first, very own GraphHopper meeting, spoke at IAA, FOSSGIS, … and reached a new star record for our open source projects (sum is over 1400!).

You can now follow us not only on Twitter but also on LinkedIn and Facebook. Or visit us at WhereCamp Berlin or at Startup-DemoNight in Munich in real life.

Over the last months we were very happy to welcome dozens of new customers, bigger and smaller – hello again 🙂 !