Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) software

Ideas and resources

Data formats and sources

• OpenStreetMaps
  • PBF format
  • Osmosis (java app for processing OSM data)
• OpenAddresses
• Who's On First
• GeoNames
• Geofabrik
• GeoJSON

Geocoding

• Nominatim (geocoding using OpenStreetMaps data)
• Pelias geocoder

Misc

• Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)

• Open Route Service

• Leaflet

• Folium

  • https://python-visualization.github.io/folium/
  • https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2020/06/guide-geospatial-analysis-folium-python/

• Leaflet Routing Machine

• Graphhopper

• Valhalla

• OR-Tools

• Vroom

• jsprit (https://github.com/graphhopper/jsprit)

• routing-ortools-osrm Python package

• GPX data format

• GeoJSON data format

• R, ORS and Leaflet. GeoJSON results from ORS are feeded to Leaflet to generate visualizations.

  • https://giscience.github.io/openrouteservice-r/articles/openrouteservice.html
  • https://rstudio.github.io/leaflet/json.html#working-with-raw-geojsontopojson

• GeoPandas

• OptaPlanner (VRP)

Geographic information system

From Wikipedia:

"A geographic information system (GIS) is a conceptualized framework that provides the ability to capture and analyze spatial and geographic data."

• List of geographic information systems software

• MapServer

• MapGuide Open Source

• GeoServer