Real-time routing with OpenStreetMap data

  • Authors:
  • Dennis Luxen;Christian Vetter

  • Affiliations:
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, Karlsruhe, Germany;Nokia, GmbH, Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Routing services on the web and on hand-held devices have become ubiquitous in the past couple of years. Websites like Bing or Google Maps allow users to find routes between arbitrary locations comfortably in no time. Likewise onboard navigation units belong to the off-the-shelf equipment of virtually any new car. The amount of volunteered spatial data of the OpenStreetMap project has increased rapidly in the past five years. In many areas, the data quality already matches that of commercial map data, if not outright surpass it. We demonstrate both a server and a hand-held device based implementation working with OpenStreetMap data. Both applications provide real-time and exact shortest path computation on continental sized networks with millions of street segments. We also demonstrate sophisticated real-time features like draggable routes and round-trip planning.