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September News From GraphHopper

We heavily worked during the hot summer to improve our services for you. The Map Matching API got faster – try it on the example website. If you do not know yet what this API is about and why fleet owners can benefit from it, read more in its documentation. The Route Optimization API got […]

Visualization of Road Network Reachability with deck.gl

With the GraphHopper Isochrone API it is possible to create polygons of areas that you can reach from a certain location in e.g. 10 minutes for different modes of transport, like car or walking. This is useful for a number of purposes like finding the best location for a new supermarket or the valuation of […]

Assign geo locations to roads and its impacts on route optimization

These are the three basic steps to solve a real world vehicle routing problem with GraphHopper’s Optimization API: 1) Assign geo locations to (road) network 2) Calculate travel times and distances 3) Solve vehicle routing problem Each step impacts the solution of the vehicle routing problem. This article illustrates how 1) – the assignment of […]

Demo: Real Time Public Transit Routing in Portland

Today, we would like to show you a demo of a feature we’ve been quietly working on for over a year: Real-time public transit routing. Grassroots transit apps depend a lot on open data published by operators. Trimet of Portland, Oregon, publishes both their schedule and realtime updates. This is what it looks like when […]