Dear HOT community, I want to hereby share a new service of our GIScience research group.
Recently our HeiGIT <http://heigit.org/> team @ GIScience (Heidelberg University) <http://uni-heidelberg.de/gis> released a disaster version <https://disaster.openrouteservice.org/> of OpenRouteService <http://www.openrouteservice.org/> (ORS) to support humanitarian logistics and to enable making use of OSM data for disaster routing purposes in a more sustainable way. Since 2008, the OpenRouteService had been applied for specific disaster cases for Haiti <https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/presse/news2010/pm100115_haiti_en.html> in 2008 and 2010, Nepal <http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2015/05/06/heidelberg-university-press-releases-about-nepal-disaster-openrouteservice/> in 2015 and Ecuador <http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2016/04/20/disaster-openrouteservice-for-ecuador/> in 2016. In order to provide this tool in a permanent manner and with most recent data, the routing and disaster mapping team at HeiGIT jointly developed this new dedicated disaster ORS: https://disaster.openrouteservice.org Besides the ability to *navigate on daily updated OSM data,* our service provides an *accessibility analysis service*, an interactive *avoid area tool*, and allows the *export of GPS tracks*. In addition to the usage via the web application the API endpoint can also be integrated in dedicated applications (e.g. QGIS Plugins) etc. Check here <http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2017/06/19/new-disaster-openrouteservice-for-africa-south-america-and-indonesia-released/>for more information and please feel free to contact Luisa Griesbaum ( [email protected]) for further information and feedback. Kind regards, Melanie on behalf of the HeiGIT team
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