How to Create Your own Map backend like Google Map…

When I heard, first time about OSRM my reaction was “What the hell is OSRM 🤯”

OSRM in Open Source Routing Machine. In simple words, you can create your map application like Google Maps using OSRM (FOR FREE!!)

Why OSRM?

• Powerful and efficient engine routing machine for solving shortest road tracks.
• It’s fully open-source and you can host it on your computer without paying for a license

So say bye to google map and create your own map company by using OSRM

What Type of data you would get with OSRM:

• Nearest: Snaps coordinates to the street network and returns the nearest matches
• Route: Finds the fastest route between coordinates
• Table: Computes the duration or distances of the fastest route between all pairs of supplied coordinates
• Match: Snaps noisy GPS traces to the road network in the most plausible way
• Trip: Solves the Traveling Salesman Problem using a greedy heuristic
• Tile: Generates Mapbox Vector Tiles with internal routing metadata

There are two pre-processing pipelines available:

• Contraction Hierarchies (CH)