ORS stuck when creating graph with European borders enabled

openrouteservice
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Hello,

I successfully built the Europe map with ORS (about 12 hours, no problems or errors).
However, when I enable the European borders (add all the boundaries etc.), the build starts but then gets stuck during graph creation. I don’t get any errors, only the following log output:

ors-app  | 2025-08-18 12:20:45 INFO                                            ORS-pl-car [ o.h.o.r.g.e.r.b.CountryBordersReader     ]   Border geometries read
ors-app  | 2025-08-18 12:20:45 INFO                                            ORS-pl-car [ o.h.o.r.g.e.r.b.CountryBordersReader     ]   37 countries read in 1 hiearchies
ors-app  | 2025-08-18 12:20:45 INFO                                            ORS-pl-car [ o.h.o.r.g.e.r.b.CountryBordersReader     ]   37 country IDs read
ors-app  | 2025-08-18 12:20:45 INFO                                            ORS-pl-car [ o.h.o.r.g.e.r.b.CountryBordersReader     ]   Border ids data read
ors-app  | 2025-08-18 12:20:45 INFO                                            ORS-pl-car [ o.h.o.r.g.e.r.b.CountryBordersReader     ]   Border openness data read
ors-app  | 2025-08-18 12:20:45 INFO                                            ORS-pl-car [ o.h.o.r.g.e.ORSGraphHopper               ]   version v4.9.1|2024-01-17T09:08:46Z (7,20,5,4,5,7)
ors-app  | 2025-08-18 12:20:45 INFO                                            ORS-pl-car [ o.h.o.r.g.e.ORSGraphHopper               ]   graph CH|car_ors|RAM_STORE|3D|turn_cost|,,,,, details:edges:0(0MB), nodes:0(0MB), name:(0MB), geo:0(0MB), bounds:1.7976931348623157E308,-1.7976931348623157E308,1.7976931348623157E308,-1.7976931348623157E308,1.7976931348623157E308,-1.7976931348623157E308, shortcuts:0 (0MB), nodesCH:-1 (0MB), shortcuts:0 (0MB), nodesCH:-1 (0MB), shortcuts:0 (0MB), nodesCH:-1 (0MB)
ors-app  | 2025-08-18 12:20:45 INFO                                            ORS-pl-car [ o.h.o.r.g.e.ORSGraphHopper               ]   No custom areas are used, custom_areas.directory not given
ors-app  | 2025-08-18 12:20:45 INFO                                            ORS-pl-car [ o.h.o.r.g.e.ORSGraphHopper               ]   start creating graph from /home/ors/files/europe-latest.osm.pbf
ors-app  | 2025-08-18 12:20:45 INFO                                            ORS-pl-car [ o.h.o.r.g.e.ORSGraphHopper               ]   using CH|car_ors|RAM_STORE|3D|turn_cost|,,,,, memory:totalMB:24576, usedMB:902

At this point the process doesn’t move forward. I let it run for almost 3 days, but it still never finished creating the graph, and the status remains “not ready.”

When I disable borders, the build works fine.
When I enable borders, no errors appear, but it seems to hang indefinitely.

Here my configuration:

server:
  port: 8080
  error:
    whitelabel:
      enabled: false
  enabled: true
ors:
  cors:
  engine:
    source_file: /home/ors/files/europe-latest.osm.pbf
    profile_default:
      service:
        maximum_distance: 100000000
    profiles:
      car:
        encoder_name: driving-car
        enabled: true
        elevation: true
        extra_info:
          - countryinfo
        ext_storages:
          WayCategory:
          HeavyVehicle:
          WaySurfaceType:
          Borders:
            preprocessed: false
            boundaries: /home/ors/borders/borders.geojson
            ids: /home/ors/borders/ids.csv
            openborders: /home/ors/borders/openborders.csv
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Hey,

I’d guess that this is due to a data format issue with your input files.

Could you make sure that the files are indeed where they are configured to be?

Could you post one polygon from your geojson file, along with the corresponding entry from ids.csv and one corresponding entry from openborders.csv?

Best regards

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The geojson is really big, but here is a part:

{
  "type": "FeatureCollection",
  "features": [
    {
      "type": "Feature",
      "geometry": {
        "type": "Polygon",
        "coordinates": [...]
      },
      "properties": {
        "osm_id": -14296,
        "name": "Slovensko",
        "name_en": "Slovakia",
        "boundary": "administrative",
        "admin_level": 2,
        "admin_centre_node_id": 530544342,
        "admin_centre_node_lat": 48.1516988,
        "admin_centre_node_lng": 17.1093063,
        "label_node_id": 432425079,
        "label_node_lat": 48.7411522,
        "label_node_lng": 19.4528646
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "Feature",
      "geometry": {
        "type": "MultiPolygon",
        "coordinates": [...]
      },
      "properties": {
        "osm_id": -16239,
        "name": "Österreich",
        "name_en": "Austria",
        "boundary": "administrative",
        "admin_level": 2,
        "admin_centre_node_id": 17328659,
        "admin_centre_node_lat": 48.2083537,
        "admin_centre_node_lng": 16.3725042,
        "label_node_id": 26847709,
        "label_node_lat": 47.59397,
        "label_node_lng": 14.12456
      }
    }
  ]
}

Additionally it created the geojson from:

Here an example for ids.csv:

country_id,name,name:en,iso_code_cca2,iso_code_cca3
1,Slovensko,Slovakia,SK,SVK
2,Österreich,Austria,AT,AUT

Here an example for openborders.csv:

country1,country2
Austria,Slovakia
4

Hey,

the one difference that I’d assign meaning to, in comparison to what we deploy, is that our openborders.csv doesn’t have a “header row”, it immediately starts with the first pair.

Could you check whether that changes something?

Best regards

5

No actually, country1 and country 2 is the header.
Like here:

6

In the documentation the borders.geojson is loaded as borders.geojson.tar.gz… would this make any difference, because I am directly adding the file as borders.geojson. I did not thought that, as the log says it is loaded without any error.