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miguelrochefort

I've been using their API just last week.

As far as I know, this is the only free service for driving distances that can be used with maps other than Google's.

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The services from GraphHopper are free too and the core router is even open source too. (It is based on OpenStreetMap)

open street map?

Yeah, mentioning MapQuest without regards to their OSM efforts seems like a bit of an omission. Intentional or no?

http://open.mapquest.co.uk/

Openstreetmap doesn't provide driving distances or routing itself. Project OSRM uses Openstreetmap data to provide this service: http://project-osrm.org/

There are many projects[1] and services[2] using OSM data for route planning. As your sibling comment mentions, Mapquest Open is among them.

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing#Developers

[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing/online_routers#Ro...

I don't disagree. mayneack indicated that he/she thought OSM provided an API for driving distances (they don't).

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