Thanks for the recommendation - cycle.travel’s my site!
I’d like to do a dirt/gravel profile. Main reason I haven’t so far is that it’s very hardware-intensive (as in tipping over into renting another Hetzner box).
How funny, Trail Router also happens to be hosted with Hetzner. Right now in their auction there's a E5-1650v3, with 256GB RAM and 2x 480GB SSD for 73 EUR/mo (including VAT) - which is exactly what Trail Router runs on. That's incredibly good value for money. Lots of RAM is crucial for applications like this.
I think Doctor_Fegg means that he needs one new server per vehicle profile (?) as OSRM is used for cycle.travel and it does not allow multiple vehicle profiles unlike GraphHopper ;)
I didn't know that. I've been spoiled by the always wonderful GraphHopper. Thank you for your tireless work on GraphHopper! Trail Router and many other projects would not be possible without it.
Well, kind of. cycle.travel runs on my fork of OSRM which does allow multiple profiles. But it still needs a separate hierarchy for each one, which would be another 14GB RAM.
Man thanks so much for your work! Been using it for some time now especially for planning long distance routes. That's where cycle.travel really shines (plus I really love the 3D altitude visualization ;-)).
I usually tend to export routes and navigate with komoot. Komoot for long distance planning is terribly slow as soon as you hit ~200km+.
I just wanted to reply this cannot be as Komoot is also using CH (fast routing algorithm using GraphHopper) but yes, they are relative slow for fast routes. The reason seems that they create a very big response (5MB) in these cases and then it takes more seconds to visualize this. For current & original GraphHopper the response is highly optimized and so it is much smaller (20x) even with comparable road data (like elevation, surface, bridges/tunnels and road class)
btw: in general Komoot is a nicely polished app. I can only recommend it :)
I absolutely agree. Routing using a phone is loads of fun. I do have the paid version and I highly appreciate their open source-ish character.
Besides large response data and a slaggish planning interface @ komoot: try routing from northern Italy to Sicily: Komoot doesn't seem to know the ferry departing in Villa s. Giovanni to Messina. Komoot will always - no matter how may vias you place - route you back north and send you on a ferry in Salerno. Yes, I know, I could split my route and such. Yet, I love the idea of my planning tool to show me the complete route - including official transportation ;-)
I’d like to do a dirt/gravel profile. Main reason I haven’t so far is that it’s very hardware-intensive (as in tipping over into renting another Hetzner box).