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Global Coverage for OGC OpenLS Directory Service
03 December 2010, 2:13pm
OpenRouteService.org provides a location-based POI search that is implementing the OpenGIS Location Service Directory Specification (OpenLS) already since 2008. This has now been extended from European to Global coverage using the free data from OpenStreetMap. Due to the rich and fast growing data of OpenStreetMap now more than 10 Million objects of a broad set of types from bus stops to ATM/EC-machines or specific shops and historic sites can be found and visualized world-wide. Options include finding the nearest POI of a user seleted type, or those within a given distance around the given position, just by name, or even around the calculated route of OpenRouteService.org. OpenRouteService.org is a service of the Chair of GIScience (Geoinformatics) at the University of Heidelberg, Germany and offers different types or routing (bicycle, pedestrian, wheelchair..) all over Europe as well as other options, such as Accessibility Analysis etc.
Source: Alexander Zipf
zipf@uni-heidelberg.de
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