Openrouteservice Backend Documentation

Welcome to the openrouteservice backend documentation.

Here you’ll find information on how to set up the backend yourself, what datasets are used, how to contribute to the openrouteservice and on how openrouteservice works internally.

API

For any information on how to use the API provided by the openrouteservice, refer to the API playground and documentation.

For the latest changes to the openrouteservice, see the human-readable CHANGELOG.md in the main repo.

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Installation and Usage contains all info about setting up the ors locally, whether from docker or from source. It also contains info about configuring openrouteservice, IDE usage and more docker stuff
Data contains info about the used data sets.
Contributing contains info about contributing to the openrouteservice, the OpenStreetMap and translations
Documentation contains all sorts of explanation about the internal workings of the openrouteservice.
FAQ contains answers to frequently asked questions.

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