OSRM gives you routes with road geometries as they are in the OpenStreetMap database. For example, you can get the route as GPX (and post-process this file if you want). This would look like the following: GET http://router.project-osrm.org/viaroute?hl=en&loc=47.064970,15.458470&loc=47.071100,15.476760&output=gpx Read more: OSRM API docs.
You need to implement the next section of the Quick Start Guide: you’ve initialized the map, but haven’t added any tile layers to it, hence gray. So read on to the section beginning with Next we’ll add a tile layer to add to our map.
The standard tile server of OSM tries to display labels in the local language whenever such data is available (local meaning the language of the country currently displayed, not your local language). The tiles, served by the tile server, already contain the labels, so you cannot remove them afterwards. But you can: render them on … Read more
Yes, there is an api and xapi (extended api). I havent used these yet. But there is also the cloudmade api to OSM. I played a bit with the python api. I am not sure, if any of them could help you with your particular problem, but you could search for a coastline near to … Read more
There are multiple reverse geocoding APIs available for OpenStreetMap (since the data is open-source, anyone can build one). The two that I would recommend you investigate further are: Nominatim, run by a member of the OSM community as a volunteer project. Reverse Geocoding documentation CloudMade Geocoding, run as a commercial service. Reverse Geocoding documentation (at … Read more
Using Mapbox GL ⚠️ WARNING: the instructions below for Mapbox appear to no longer be free if you use SDK/library versions after 2.0.0, released around Dec 2020. See this SO answer for more details: https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/188241/55948 Old answer (pre-December 2020 – see above): Another option is to use Mapbox GL, which is free as long as … Read more
You should be able to make it much faster by trading off optimality. See Admissibility and optimality on wikipedia. The idea is to use an epsilon value which will lead to a solution no worse than 1 + epsilon times the optimal path, but which will cause fewer nodes to be considered by the algorithm. … Read more
You need to use some JavaScript stuff to show your map. OpenLayers is the number one choice for this. There is an example at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenLayers_Simple_Example and something more advanced at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenLayers_Marker and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Openlayers_POI_layer_example