The Open Source GraphHopper Routing Engine 8.0 Released
It's easy to be cynical about the future of the internet but OSM and tools like GraphHopper are a wonderful and rare example of at least _some_ power being wrested away from the incumbents. Finding Leaflet, OSM, and custom tile servers many years ago was a godsend when it seemed like your only option for including mapping was relying on Google maps.
Great work Peter and the rest of the GraphHopper team.
I note with interest the improvements to GraphHopper maps on mobile. I don't know if you saw a couple of days ago an article was linked on HN with an interview of Kevin and David from Valhalla: https://console.substack.com/p/console-179 where David says:
> The main drawback [of GraphHopper] compared to Valhalla is that it isn’t tailored to mobile environments. I think they supported an Android build at one time, but later they dropped support.
I wonder if you'd agree with that sentiment?
There's a dead comment from n4r9 asking about mobile support and I'm not sure why it was voted down because it seems like a reasonable question, but in case n4r9 is reading this, my impression is that the graphhopper engine itself has no support for Android and the app mentioned in these release notes is just a client that uses a remote instance of graphhopper to do online routing.
Is there any plans to support EV routing?
Why are the rate limits of graphhopper.com so low?