# Planning a route with ORS tools **URL:** \ **Category:** openrouteservice\ **Created:** [October 21, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/planning-a-route-with-ors-tools/2218 "2020-10-21T16:17:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Matt914](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/user_avatar/ask.openrouteservice.org/matt914/32/779_2.png) [@Matt914](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/Matt914)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/planning-a-route-with-ors-tools/2218/1 "2020-10-21T16:17:51Z")
Hi, can someone try to help me to understand how to work with ORS tools? I’ve started to do something with this plugin but now I want to start working on a route for a vehicle like a garbage truck with multi stops but now I’m a bit stuck. ---
**Author:** ![nils](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/user_avatar/ask.openrouteservice.org/nils/32/6_2.png) [@nils](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/nils)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/planning-a-route-with-ors-tools/2218/2 "2020-10-21T20:08:26Z")
Garbage collection? That’d be far outside of what you can do with that fairly simple plugin. What you want is solving the Chinese postman problem. There’s the start of an implementation from the vroom author: [https://github.com/verso-optim/pOSMan](https://github.com/verso-optim/pOSMan). But not that useful (yet). No other FOSS solution I’m aware of. Long story short, the plugin won’t help you much… ---
**Author:** ![nils](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/user_avatar/ask.openrouteservice.org/nils/32/6_2.png) [@nils](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/nils)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/planning-a-route-with-ors-tools/2218/3 "2020-10-21T20:09:57Z")
Maybe worthwhile sifting through the pgrouting docs, they might’ve implemented some experimental Chinese postman solver. Anyways, that’s the keyword you’re looking for. ---
**Author:** ![MikeyBr12](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/user_avatar/ask.openrouteservice.org/mikeybr12/32/951_2.png) [@MikeyBr12](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/MikeyBr12)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 2:29pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/planning-a-route-with-ors-tools/2218/4 "2021-03-06T14:29:15Z")
Hey Matt, We are trying to solve a similar problem for snow plowing. Did you ever find a solution? Let me know when you have a chance. Thanks, Mike ---
**Author:** ![jschnell](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/user_avatar/ask.openrouteservice.org/jschnell/32/971_2.png) [@jschnell](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/jschnell)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 12:48pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/planning-a-route-with-ors-tools/2218/5 "2023-10-23T12:48:10Z")
2 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Splitting All City into walking routes](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/splitting-all-city-into-walking-routes/5393/3)