How to display a map with a route?

[Joride]

Hey folks, I’m exploring various routing and maps options.

There two technical requirements:

• be able to get the length and duration of a route for cars. A route can consists of multiple stops.
• Show the route on a map, preferably zoomable.

The first one is covered very nicely by the POST endpoint /v2/directions/{profile}.
I’m not sure though how I would go about using Openroute Service for the second one. Is it possible at all, and if so, what documentation did I overlook?

Thank you,
Joride

[jschnell]

Hey,

openrouteservice is a routing engine, not an interactive map visualization.

Depending on what your use case is, you might:

• use the mobile openrouteservice client at maps.openrouteservice.org
• visualize your routes in QGIS, possibly using the ORSTools QGIS plugin
• use something like leaflet-js for a javascript-based visualization
• look at leaflet-bindings for other languages, e.g. folium for python
• …

Of course this is not a complete list - looking on gis.stackexchange.com or other, more fitted forums and resource on the web should come up with way more possibilities.

Best regards