Room: Talks I
Sunday, 11:30
Duration: 40 minutes (plus Q&A)
This event will not be recorded.
University of Heidelberg, Faculty for Geoinformation Sciences
Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) Website
How does OpenStreetMap data as a collection of nodes, ways, and relations with tags like highway=*
, access=*
become the fast, turn-by-turn navigation and routing you see and use every day, including on openstreetmap.org
?
And what else can you build and do with such a Routing Network?
This beginner-friendly deep-dive unpacks the tag-to-routing network process* and compares today’s most prominent open-source routing engines (OSRM, GraphHopper, Valhalla, openrouteservice). On the example of openrouteservice we will show how currently 180,000 users, from governments to humanitarian responders, **turn raw OSM data into meaningful mobility analysis using directions, isochrones and vehicle-route optimisation and how your contribution helps them do this.
To round up the talk, we will focus on current trends for routing engines and look at two forthcoming and noteworthy developments in the openrouteservice ecosystem, that aim to mitigate climate and humanitarian related challenges.
OpenStreetMap is the planet’s most detailed open-data street network. But how does a crowdsourced collection of nodes
, ways
, and relations
become a routable Routing Network that you see on e.g. openstreetmap.org
, and what can you do with it, once it has been built?
This session takes newcomers and intermediates on a step-by-step journey to OSM-based mobility analysis:
highway=*
, access=*
are used for routing and how they influence e.g. turn-restrictions, speed estimations or surface data.-> What comes next?
At the end of the talk, we will briefly explore the current trends in routing engines and look into two specific and noteworthy developments from openrouteservice:
By the end of this talk, you will have a more profound understanding of what open-source routing is. You will understand how your involvement in OSM, mapping, and associated activities impact and enhance the success of thousands that use mobility analysis with OSM every day.