[HOT] New Disaster OpenRouteService released

[Melanie Eckle]

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 (
griesbaum at uni-heidelberg.de) for further information and feedback.

Kind regards,

Melanie

on behalf of the HeiGIT team
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