Endpoints

Hint

Not all endpoints are available in our live API. But you can use them when hosting your own instance of openrouteservice.

Spatial Endpoints

Openrouteservice offers a set of endpoints for different spatial purposes:

• Directions Service: Get directions for different modes of transport
• Isochrones Service: Obtain areas of reachability from given locations
• Matrix Service: Obtain one-to-many, many-to-one and many-to-many matrices for time and distance
• Snapping Service: Snap coordinates to the road network
• Export Service: Export the base graph for different modes of transport

Technical Endpoints

Furthermore, there are technical endpoints that are ⚠️ not available in our live API:

• Health Service: Get information on the health of the running openrouteservice instance
• Status Service: Get information on the status of the openrouteservice instance

Included Services

There are additional other services we are hosting for convenience, which are ⚠️ only included in our public API. They are standalone services that are ⚠️ not included in a local openrouteservice instance and would need a separate local installation:

• POI Service: Stand-Alone service from HeiGIT that returns points of interest in the area surrounding a geometry
• Elevation Service: Stand-Alone service from HeiGIT that returns the elevation for point or line geometries
• Geocoding Service: Third Party Service (Pelias) hosted by HeiGIT that resolves geographic coordinates to addresses and vice versa
• Optimization Service: Third Party Service (VROOM) hosted by HeiGIT that optimizes routes for vehicle fleets