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See also: Routing/offline routers

Online routing services and software using OpenStreetMap data.

Route services with public instances

• Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) [1]: Very fast car routing.
• OpenRouteService ([2]) - Route service (Europe only) for car, pedestrians and bicycles based on Open Standards and OpenStreetMap data. Support for wheelchair users is in work wheelchair routing (German). Last data update for routing was on 2012-10-29.
• MapQuest [3]
• CloudMade Routing (Demo Site) and API
• YOURS ([4]) is a opensource webservice for route planning combining existing services and software like Namefinder, Gosmore routing engine and OpenLayers slippy map interface. Routes can be calculated for either car, bicycle or foot and downloaded as GPX file. A route altitude profile is also available. Last data update for routing was on 2013-02-10.
• CycleStreets is routing for cyclists (UK only) [5][6]
• Routino ([7]) A free / open source router with an online demonstration for the UK [8].
• Roadeeno online global routing demonstration of free software router based on Routino considering special osm-tags and providing route instructions for web and navigation systems. Roadee-Developer-Site
• BBBike @ World ([9]) - a Cycle Route Planner. More than 200 cities are supported around the world. There is also an offline version.
• BRouter focuses on bike routing and features elevation awareness, alternatives, fully configurable routing profiles and offline routing for Android

services missing in comparison matrix

• Skobbler maps - provides routing for car (fastest, shortest), cycle and pedestrian. Seems to be worldwide but not sure.
• OpenStreetRouting ([10]) A simple online routing app using Pyroutelib2 and tile data server
• fahrradies.net Fahrradies.net is a simple to use cycle or pedestrian route planner based on pgRouting.
• GeoVelo French cycle routing on selected city
• OpenTripPlanner opentripplanner.org open source multi-modal trip planner released under the LGPL.
• GraphHopper is an Apache licensed Java (road) routing library.

comparison matrix

Functionality (hover for description)	OpenRouteService [11]	YOURS [12]	CycleStreets [13]	Cloudmade	Routino [14]	Roadeeno [15]	BBBike @ World [16]	MapQuest [17]	OSRM [18]	BRouter
Coverage	Europe only	Global	UK only	Global	UK only	Global	Selected Cities	Global	Global	Global
Modes of transportation
Car routing (fastest)	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Car routing (shortest)	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Bicycle routing (shortest)	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Bicycle routing (fastest)	Partial	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Bicycle routing (safest)	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Bicycle routing (quietest)	Partialsafest	Partial	Yes	No	Yes	Partial	Yes	No	No	Yes
Pedestrian routing	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Pedestrian routing (safest crossings)		No	No		No	No	No	No	No	No
Ferry	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	?	?	Yes	No	?
Public Transport	No	Available in the API	?	No	?	?	No	No	?	No
Wheelchair routing	Yes (subproject)	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Blind person routing	No	No ?	No	No ?	No	No	No	No	No	No
Advanced routing options
Turn restrictions	No	Partial	No	Partial	Partial	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Detailed vehicle limits (height…)	No	No	N/A	No	Yes	Yes	N/A	No	No	No
Via-points	Yes	Yes	Available in the API	up to 25 online	up to 9 online, 99 in software	up to 9 online, 99 in software	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Manual speed of vehicle	No	No	Partial	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Avoid areas	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Avoid crossing borders	No	No	No	No	No	No	N/A	Yes	No	No
Avoid bridges or tunnels	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Avoid street types	Yes	No	Partial	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Takes hills into account	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Takes steps into account			Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		No	Yes
Real-time traffic	Partial	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Routing over ferry routes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Allows bicycle routing over motorways tagged with bicycle=yes		Yes	N/A	No	Yes; if such tagging existed		No	No	N/A	No
User interface
Route instructions	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes: web and navigation	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Maplets	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Route relations		No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes		No
Multilingual instructions	Yes	Yes	No	API only	English, German, Dutch	Deutsch, English	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Permalink for routes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Short permalink	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
GPX export	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Edit in Potlatch link	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No
Edit via remote control					No			No	Yes	No
Screenreader accessibility (JAWS, Orca)	No	No	No?	No?	No	No	No	No	No	No
Mobile device accessibility (small screen)		No	Yes		No	Partial	Yes		No	No
Route elevation profile	Only Germany	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Offline applications	Marble, OsmAnd	Marble, OsmAnd	No	OsmAnd	Marble	No	No	No	Marble (0.14+)	strict offline use with Locus or OsmAnd possible
Service information
Open source	routing-engine	Yes	Partial	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
API open for 3rd party applications	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	not online but is open-source	Partial	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Service guarantee	99%	No	Paid SLA available	99.9%	No	No	99.9%	No		No
Regular routing data updates	no updates since database change	No	every few days	no updates since database change	twice weekly	approx. weekly	weekly	daily	daily	monthly

Online routing software without public (demo) instances

stable?

• pyroute can route for different types of vehicle (bike, foot, etc), uses A* with weightings, and has a basic GUI
  • Rana is based on pyroute
  • Mormon Ruby version of pyroutelib
• pgRouting ([19]) main objective is to provide routing functionality to PostGIS / PostgreSQL. pgRouting is part of PostLBS, which provides core tools for Location Based Services (LBS) as Open Source Software (OSS).
• Loadstone for Symbian devices (Loadstone is not an online routing software! It is for Symbian OS mobile devices. It does not download any files while routing, but you can import files from the OpenStreetMap to Loadstone converter.)
• osm_routing super-simple plain Dijkstras in scala with rest-ful webAPI. (GPLv3)
• Transit Routing was a project to collect GPS tracks for calculating drive through times or travel times (transits) of streets segments.

under development/idea

• opensatnav.org Proposed project. Initial idea is to set-up an opensatnav application that can be used on G1 hand sets, and Openmoko. The Andnav2 project has done some excellent work, but it isn't all _open_.
• PHProute (version 0.2alpha) can route car like map24 or other routeplaner, using a modified A* algorithm from pyroute. (under development)

Notes

Adapted from OpenRouteService#Route Service Comparison Matrix