GraphHopper 0.10 released

Graphhopper is a fantastic tool, and having used it together with Leaflet and OSM you can do all sorts of neat things with it. I like the motorbike directions myself, since I had a 170cc scooter until relatively recently and I needed a way to say "I _can_ get on a freeway for brief stretch, but I'd rather avoid it, but I don't want to be stuck with 25mph roads either."

Very cool. This should be good for walking and cycling. I don't think there's much use in it for driving without real time traffic information and I don't see a good way to get that without being Google.

Also public transit might be fine in London where you have TfL who are firmly in the 21st century, but consider somewhere like Ipswich. I seriously doubt Ipswich Buses put their schedule on Google Maps. Google must have a dedicated team reaching out to stuck-in-the-80s transit companies to help get their data on Google Maps. Hard to match.

Still, very nice to have an alternative.

Can't the driver just use Waze? I know it's for personal use only (I think), but these days everyone owns a smart phone and the company can just give them monthly data allowance and "sort everything yourself hint to make sure you're not late".

They could have annotated their last 'Isochrone' image: "how far you get within one or two hours of driving"

also they can bump the version number: if this is 0.1 then ubuntu-desktop is 0.0.1

For the first 10-15 seconds I kept misreading this as Grace Hopper and thought it was a programming language named after her.