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Comment by et-al | Hacker News Reader

Valhalla is also open source and in production: https://github.com/valhalla/valhalla

It's used (or even built) by Mapbox? Very cool! Thanks for the pointer!

Leaving a couple of google results for interested folks like me:

  * https://blog.mapbox.com/mapbox-%EF%B8%8F-valhalla-1fdda95ac4f
  * https://blog.mapbox.com/valhalla-is-live-on-mapbox-d868e8d41611

Copied links

- https://blog.mapbox.com/mapbox-%EF%B8%8F-valhalla-1fdda95ac4...

- https://blog.mapbox.com/valhalla-is-live-on-mapbox-d868e8d41...

MapBox hired the Valhalla team after Mapzen went out of business.

Valhalla is fantastic, especially since it can run completely offline. I had a project where I had to calculate isochrones of different radii around 10s of thousands of points. Using an online API would have taken several hours to run and cost a non-trivial amount of money.

By downloading the OSM data and running Valhalla locally I could process the data in minutes completely for free

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