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I am a complete newbie to computation of gps, gis and all these geoinformatical stuff. First I describe my lessons learned to arrive at gps data. You can skip this and go to the last two paragraphs where I explain my problem with osrm and how to map a route onto an OSM map via qgis or similar tools.

I tried to do some route optimization for a bunch of addresses to support my son's paper deliverer job. I was able to generate a list of gps data by using the Nomatim engine that is available via geopy.geocoders. It's kind of a Travelling Salesman problem (TSP).

By using geopy's distance calculator and the or-tools from Google to Generate a shortest list recommendation. That worked well but it was only a TSP solution for air line :-(.

Then I was looking for route optimization toolkits but i struggled to get one for free. I thought osrm could be the right tool. I followed the descriptions given at Github, see here. I was able to generate a JSON file - at least I supposed that it's kind of a JSON file. But I was unable to project this back onto a map in QGis or any online tool from OSM. Can anyone help me?

The file with such JSON-like formatting:

{"code":"Ok","waypoints":[{"hint":"Jh4BgEUzI4BhAAAACwAAAKIAAABZAAAAkLAjQgpyikBay4dCWsuHQmEAAAALAAAAogAAAFkAAAArAAAAxwB4AARI3AI3AXgAWEbcAgIADwXVhXd1","location":...

Due to privacy issues I cannot post it here with any locations. Sorry for this. But does anyone have kind of a recipe / step-by-step guide what I need to do to plot it? I even have no idea how to "open" a map within qgis. You need to do this as kind of a database but this is totally new for me. I would prefer to work with an easier method to plot it.

Alexander Farber
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Please follow the API documentation here. From that documentation

hint Unique internal identifier of the segment (ephemeral, not constant over data updates) This can be used on subsequent request to significantly speed up the query and to connect multiple services. E.g. you can use the hint value obtained by the nearest query as hint values for route inputs.

You can get the geometry in many ways. Widely GeoJSON is being used by developers. OSRM returns a very clean GeoJSON which can easily be used with Leaflet, Mapbox or other Map APIs. You need to send steps parameter true to get the full step by step direction. You can get the each segments of steps in legs. So call the GeoJSON within the geometries of every legs with loop. You can also get the geometry without passing the steps parameter true. For that you will get full geometry in a single GeoJSON within the routes property.

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