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GraphHopper Directions API
Company blog · graphhopper.com/blog · on HN as karussellprogrammingdata
GraphHopper Directions API is the company blog at graphhopper.com, writing about programming and data. Since 2013, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 98 times, most often “Graphhopper Maps”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-24, and you can follow it by feed.
A fast Directions API with world wide data from OpenStreetMap and route optimization. Stay independent and flexible.
Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-10-10
- Graphhopper Maps3 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2015-02-16
- GraphHopper Routing Engine 1.0 Released3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-05-25
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-10-21
- /api/1/examples/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-16
- GraphHopper Routing Engine 3.0 Released2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-18
- /api/1/docs/isochrone/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-02
- /open-source/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-17
What Hacker News says?
The upside of this change is it should help raise awareness and investment in mapping products that are open source and use open data. Off the top of my head, there are a number of companies/services that can serve as alternatives to Google Maps, and one way or another they all contribute to the collective quality of open source and open data map tools: * geocode.earth ( https://geocode.earth ) has geocoding includi…
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on “Farewell, Google Maps”Submitted Using OpenStreetMap and GraphHopper to visit every pub in Dublin as a story · 85 points
HN discussionI meant there are many ready-to-use map UIs out there already, like the UI from OTP or valhalla itself. No need to reinvent the wheel. E.g. see https://valhalla.openstreetmap.de/ Or https://github.com/Qwant/erdapfel Or https://graphhopper.com/maps2 & https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper-maps (disclaimer: I'm a contributor there)
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on “Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps”Submitted GraphHopper Routing Engine 0.7 Released as a story · 68 points
HN discussionWhat problems did you face with cycling directions? Regarding the route shapes I can only guess: we use an encoded polyline as default for a very compact response. You can either disable this or use our JavaScript library, or there is a new UI https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper-maps Regarding routing parameters: our custom_model approach is more powerful than simple parameters and still not complicated: http…
Comment linking /blog/2022/06/27/host-your-own-worldwide-route-calculator-with-graphhopper/
on “Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps”Submitted Findings on route optimization in practice as a story · 50 points
HN discussionGraphHopper | Cloud Engineer | Munich, Germany | REMOTE possible, contract based GraphHopper is the driver behind the popular open source projects GraphHopper Routing Engine and GraphHopper jsprit using open data like OpenStreetMap. On top of these projects we built the GraphHopper Directions API and now look to improve our architecture (bare metal & cloud mix with docker, kubernetes etc) with your help. For more in…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”Submitted GraphHopper 0.10 released as a story · 47 points
HN discussionWhen using GraphHopper this is not the case. For hiking elevation is considered but hills are not explicitly avoided only slower for up and downhill. For bike we avoid uphill. https://graphhopper.com/maps/ (click the dots near the bike icon for more profiles) And the best is: everything is open source and you can easily tweak it according to your needs.
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on “Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back”Submitted Show HN: A TSP game I wanted for 10 years - built in 4 hours as a story · 12 points
HN discussionWe often hear that the pricing model is not the only problem. E.g. there are other restrictions like being forced to display the result on a (google) map etc Also not that you cannot really cache routes, nor could you store all (not even Google) or even just distances or ETAs. But that is also not necessary to get fast and relative 'CPU light' responses. > I get incomparable functionality using OSM. Have a look at h…
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on “OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo”Submitted Open Source GraphHopper Routing Engine 4.0 Released as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThere's also: Project OSRM: https://www.project-osrm.org/ and GraphHopper https://graphhopper.com/ And for the UI, you can use https://github.com/perliedman/leaflet-routing-machine all of which you can self-host using OpenstreetMap data.
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on “Google is Forcing Routebuilder to Shut Down”Submitted Host Your Own Worldwide Route Calculator with GraphHopper as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTwo of the more well-known routing engines have this capability and have written about it on their blogs with some visualisations: - OSRM (the main routing engine behind openstreetmap.org) https://blog.mapbox.com/matching-gps-traces-to-a-map-7373019... - Graphhopper https://www.graphhopper.com/blog/2016/08/08/releasing-the-ma... Unfortunately it's not a simple project to get started on because you already need to ha…
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on “Real-world dynamic programming: seam carving”Submitted GraphHopper Routing Engine 1.0 Released as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThere's several: http://map.project-osrm.org/ http://graphhopper.com/maps/ http://open.mapquest.com/ For mobile, try the Scout app (Android / iOS). Disclaimer: I am on the Scout team. (I also made this 2007-now comparison site.)
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on “OpenStreetMap Then and Now”Submitted GraphHopper Routing Engine 6.0 Released as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://graphhopper.com/api/1/docs/isochrone/ https://developer.here.com/documentation/routing/topics/requ...
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on “Mapzen Shutdown”Submitted GraphHopper Routing Engine 5.0 Released as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'll do a shameless advertisement of our open source routing engine GraphHopper as one of our main advantage over the big companies is that we do not track users. We rent our servers (not on AWS or GC :) ) and remove logs after max. 5 weeks https://graphhopper.com/maps/ (see our privacy policy for more details) We only keep them for debugging purposes and attack prevention. The maps layer (visualization) is done fro…
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on “Plan Your Route Privately: DuckDuckGo Now Has Driving and Walking Directions”Submitted GraphHopper Routing Engine 3.0 Released as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor GraphHopper Maps we recently released version 3.0 where we also developed a simple online demo (target audience are developers :) ) of our customizable routing feature: https://www.graphhopper.com/blog/2021/05/18/graphhopper-rout... One example link that prefers bike network and avoids bigger roads: https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=Potsdam%2C%20Deutschland... You can self host GraphHopper or use our API and i…
on “Organicmaps: Android and iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers”Submitted Graphhopper Maps as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> graphhopper felt yanky Can you explain this in more detail? Slow? Is this slow for you too: https://graphhopper.com/maps/ ? > I was just barely able to host tiles for and travelroute Sweden Hosting tiles with graphhopper? Do you mean the vector tiles we serve only for debugging purposes? > the travel time isochrones looked very jagged and not quite right For public transit? The GTFS does not give much room to inte…
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on “Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap”Submitted GraphHopper Routing Engine 1.0 Released as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere's (justifiably) a lot of love for Mapbox in this thread as an alternative, but as remarked, their pricing isn't particularly cheap (why should it be, they sell on the quality of the product). So the other option is to self-host tools using OpenStreetMap data. Some pointers: * Raster tiled maps: the canonical instructions are at switch2osm.org; put it on commodity hardware such as Hetzner/OVH. * Vector maps: a…
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on “Google Maps Platform”Submitted GraphHopper open sources Isochrone API to calculate road reachability as a story · 3 points
HN discussionsome other good OSM map options are: http://www.thunderforest.com https://stadiamaps.com For geocoding: https://geocoder.opencagedata.com For routing: https://www.graphhopper.com
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on “Google Maps Platform”Submitted GraphHopper Routing Engine 0.11 Released as a story · 3 points
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