Why openrouteservice?#
There are many great routing engines, here is a brief comparison.
openrouteservice |
GraphHopper |
OSRM |
Valhalla |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
Routing |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
Matrix |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
Isochrones |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Traveling Salesman Problem |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
Vehicle Routing Problem |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
Map Matching |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
Note
This table only contains services related to navigation. Additional services are offered by the projects.
Routing profiles#
The routing engines offer different routing profiles by default. Additinal ones can usually be implemented, which however requires editing the source code.
Profiles |
openrouteservice |
GraphHopper |
OSRM |
Valhalla |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Pedestrian |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
Hike |
✔ |
✔ |
||
Bike |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
Mountainbike |
✔ |
✔ |
||
Racing bike |
✔ |
✔ |
||
Electric bike |
✔ |
|||
Car |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
Public Transport |
✔ |
✔ |
||
Heavy Goods Vehicle |
✔ |
✔ |
||
Wheelchair |
✔ |
✔ |
||
Motor scooter |
✔ (beta) |
|||
Motorcycle |
✔ |
✔ (beta) |
||
Taxi |
✔ |
|||
Bus |
✔ |
|||
Multimodal |
✔ (public transp. + pedestrian) |
Self hosting vs APIs#
openrouteservice |
GraphHopper |
OSRM |
Valhalla |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
Self-hosting |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
Public API |
free |
free and paid |
||
Web Client - Routing |
✔ |
demo |
demo |
|
Web Client - Isochrones |
✔ |
[1] With workaround: https://github.com/valhalla/valhalla/issues/1496