Openrouteservice: Find optimal route and order of several waypoints

openrouteservice
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Hi,

let’s say I have a list of several waypoints. The order of the waypoint is NOT fixed. Can I use openrouteservice (https://maps.openrouteservice.org or an own instance of ORS) to find the most efficient route (shortest or fastest) where ORS selects the best order of my desired waypoints?

Thank you,

Katzentier

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You can use our backend:
https://openrouteservice.org/dev/#/api-docs/optimization/post

Depending on your preferred language we have several SDK’s. At least the Python one handles optimization and is quite easy to use:

Also our ORS Tools plugin for QGIS can do simple waypoint optimization:
https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/ORStools/

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Running your own instance is possible, but then you’re on your own. It requires Vroom on top of ORS. Possible but more tedious.

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Thank you, I will try it out.

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Where can I find the documentation to do just this? I have managed to get my ORS instance running on Docker. The route optimization endpoint requires integration with Vroom. How do I do that?

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Hey,

there should be plenty of topics in this forum on how to set up Vroom with your own ors instance. If you can’t find any, please open a different topic.

Best regards

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