How to route to lat-lng coordinates?

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I just discovered this service, so please forgive me if I’m missing something obvious.

As I’m sure you’re aware, OSM is just about worthless for reverse geocoding POIs in the rural US. It knows perhaps 0.1% of the places Google Maps knows about.

So I wanted to test by routing to and from the lat-lng coordinates of places. But the openroute service map doesn’t seem to accept them. Which I find weird. How is anyone supposed to use this thing if you can’t route to coordinates, and it doesn’t know where anything is? Am I missing something?

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couple potential issues:

  1. Are you using the correct map file?

  2. ORS uses lng-lat so if you’re feeding it lat-lng, then that makes sense why you wouldn’t be seeing results.

Alternatively, you can use another service like nominatim or google maps api, both of which have a free number of requests

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Thank you, @gach. I’m really not sure what changed, but I went back to try lng-lat and when it loaded, it seems to work now. I clicked on a point, copied the coordinates (in whatever order they’re provided), pasted them into the location box, and directions are successfully calculated. So, problem solved, I guess.

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no problem

if you are copying coordinate points from maps.openrouteservice.org, there’s two copy buttons, one for lat-lng and one for lng-lat. That could’ve been what happened

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Oh! I bet you’re right. I thought it was a bug that the button appears twice, and didn’t realize it’s intentional and they’re actually different buttons. They definitely shouldn’t look so similar.