There is a cycle-oriented OpenStreetMap render available, called OpenCycleMap. Sadly, OpenCycleMap is not really open (as in opensource) and it is not easy to report issues and get bug fixes. Moreover, you cannot selfhost it and have to pay after a given number of requests.

There were discussions recently, on #osm-fr@oftc.net and on the French OSM mailing-list about eventually having an alternative render dedicated to cycling which would be totally opensource, free software and selfhostable.

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Île-de-France Mobilités (anciennement STIF) propose des APIs de test des passages en temps réel sur leur réseau (gratuite jusqu’à 200 000 appels pour une ligne et un arrêt par jour, ou 1000 appels par jour pour avoir l’aperçu global sur tout le réseau). On peut donc accéder facilement …

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I recently started to have a deeper look into routing for bikes, on top of OpenStreetMap data and came across BRouter. This article is a follow-up to the first and second ones and it will quickly cover how to write your own profile or extend a profile.

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I recently started to have a deeper look into routing for bikes, on top of OpenStreetMap data and came across BRouter. This article is a follow-up to the first one and will cover how to build your own segments files and add new tags to be extracted from the OSM data for your profiles.

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I recently started to have a deeper look into routing for bikes, on top of OpenStreetMap data and came across BRouter. The website and the app might seem old school, but this is definitely one of the best routing engine out there (especially for bikes) and it is FOSS! One of the great advantage of BRouter is that it is written in Java and is light enough so that it can run on Android devices!

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