Big news from the ohsome team: the release 1.0 of one of our major services, the ohsome API for ohsome OpenStreetMap History Analytics, is on the doorstep. We are bringing three major advancements along with this version. The first one is a completely new documentation of the API giving several examples to different endpoints. The [...]
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Advanced time-dependent routing soon available in Openrouteservice
Posted in OSM, Research, Services, Software, Traffic on Apr 28th, 2020
We are thrilled to give you a sneak peak into routing with time-dependent road restrictions, the outcome of our collaboration with GraphHopper GmbH in the research project TARDUR supported by the mFUND initiative of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) Germany. Our primary focus was on the most common time-dependent restrictions in OSM, namely access [...]
A new map in ohsomeHeX provides an overview of areas in Sub-Sahara Africa where information on health facilities is still missing in OpenStreetMap (OSM).
The completeness of OSM is measured by comparing to a reference dataset on public health facilities in Sub-Sahara Africa, which was developed by Maina et al. 2019.
Especially in these days, where the [...]
Supplying medicine and food is critical not only in disasters. Due to increased global demand due to COVIDー19 HeiGIT increased the API quota for the openrouteservice multi vehicle route optimization endpoint! Now you can send up to 500 requests per day for each account for free. If you are in need for even higher problem sizes [...]
Openrouteservice Maps – Alternative routes, roundtrips and more …
Posted in Services, Software, Uncategorized on Apr 1st, 2020
While naturally all of our features are already accessible via the openrouteservice API, we have now made some of the newer routing features accessible in our Maps Client on maps.openrouteservice.org.
Alternative routes
We all know that getting second opinions or suggestions for things can give you a better sense of security and allow for a broadening of [...]
Map of COVID-19 Research shows Clinical Trials related to Corona-virus
Posted in Press release, Services on Mar 23rd, 2020
Many informative maps are available to follow the spread of COVID-19. This is important information but only part of the story. The global scientific and medical communities have immediately responded to the outbreak with focused research activities. This has led to clinical trials and scientific publications worldwide. The Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation [...]
Behavioural Effects of Spatially Structured Scoring Systems in Location-Based Serious Games - A Case Study in the Context of OpenStreetMap
Posted in Digital Earth, Lidar Group, OSM, Publications, Research, Services on Feb 24th, 2020
Location-based games have become popular in recent years, with Pokémon Go and Ingress being two very prominent examples. Some location-based games, known as Serious Games, go beyond entertainment and serve additional purposes such as data collection. Such games are also found in the OpenStreetMap context and playfully enrich the project’s geodatabase. Examples include [...]
Around 55 participants gathered in Malta for the 3rd International Workshop on Spatial Data Quality 2020 from 28th to 29th of January. Among national mapping agencies, software providers and standardization organizations, HeiGIT had the opportunity to present its ohsome - OSM history analytics platform for analyzing spatial data quality by looking at the temporal development [...]
Disaster monitoring with Openrouteservice, example from UN Pulse Lab Jarkarta
Posted in External Projects, Services on Jan 15th, 2020
Recently the UN Pulse Lab Jakarta has developed a disaster monitoring WebApp called the MIND/DisasterMon platform. According to UN Pulse Lab the objective of the MIND/DisasterMon platform is to try to answer questions related to Disaster Monitoring and emergency response by looking into various sources of data and information from open data platform and social media. The [...]
Openrouteservice v6.0 - Ganymede
Posted in Services on Jan 8th, 2020
We are pleased to announce the latest release of openrouteservice - version 6.0 also known as Ganymede.
The main changes in this release are nestled in the backend code itself and have been performed to update the core GraphHopper library to a newer version.That said, there are also some new features in the release including alternative [...]