My route planner for Denmark that avoids roads named after men has been updated. It is now possible to avoid roads named after women as well. Or both men and women. And neither.
About half of all Danish road has been registered in OpenStreetMap with the origin of the name. Wikidata contains stuff like gender. I have enriched a local OSM file for Denmark with gender information and use OSRM's exclude/filters for routing.
Example as seen in the screenshot:
https://osrm.findvej.dk/nomales/?z=16¢er=55.659281%2C12.510831&loc=55.659105%2C12.511475&loc=55.657183%2C12.511153&hl=da&alt=0&scale=metric&ly=openstreetmap.org&profile=1
OSRM v26.6.1 is out ๐
Highlights: fixed OSM node ID truncation in route/match annotations, faster MLD path unpacking with a two-tier cache โก, better access tag handling for car and bicycle profiles, corrected Earth radius constant ๐, and a trip service refactor: Try the new demo before it gets integrated into the official frontend at https://project-osrm.org/trip.html
Packages and container images to appear in the nect hours in their usual places.
OSRM's trip plugin is getting a proper solver upgrade: PR in review now.
For small trips (< 15 stops), we now run Held-Karp DP which is exact optimal. Larger trips get optimised. The old heuristic is gone for good.
Also shipping a static trip.html demo alongside it.
Blue is close. Dark red is the edge. The road network density just shows itself.
OSRM's experimental isochrone endpoint. More to come. Watch this space.
๐บ๏ธ https://project-osrm.org
#OSRM #OpenStreetMap #Routing #Isochrone #OpenSource
Sunday funday: does this location drive on the left?
๐บ๏ธ https://project-osrm.org/gauche-wasm-map.html
Click anywhere on Earth. Blue = left. Orange = right. Runs right in your browser via WebAssembly.
Tiny tool, real purpose. Getting left/right-hand traffic right is foundational for improving worldwide driving profiles. More coming.
๐บ๏ธ osrm-frontend v0.5.0 is out!
Highlights from 2026:
โข ๐ URL history navigation (back/forward support)
โข ๐ฃ๏ธ Browser language preference respected
โข ๐ Persistent Nominatim geocoder cache
โข ๐ ?src/?dst params for address deep-linking
โข โก Migrated build tooling to Vite
โข ๐ฒ Auto-toggle bike overlay on profile switch
โข ๐บ๏ธ Custom base layer via URL param
โข ๐ Customisable Nominatim endpoint
โข Various bug fixes & dependency updates
Axios used OSRM to analyze how far millions of Americans would need to drive to register to vote under the proposed SAVE Act โ routing every 5-mile cell in the U.S. to its nearest elections office.
Their finding: 5M+ voting-age Americans would face 1+ hour drives. The average: ~20 minutes.
Open-source routing, real-world impact. ๐บ๏ธ
๐ https://axios.com/2026/03/29/save-act-voter-registration-distance-travel
And the routing engine is online! Enjoy this short trip!
Barry Rowlingson
Peter Brodersen
Project OSRM
