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Heading

The flexible and hybrid modes allow adding a desired heading (north based azimuth between 0 and 360 degree) to any point. Adding a heading makes it more likely that a route starts towards the provided direction, because roads going into other directions are penalized (see the heading_penalty parameter).

A heading with the value 'NaN' won't be enforced and a heading not within [0, 360] will trigger an IllegalArgumentException. It is important to note that if you force the heading at via or end points the outgoing heading needs to be specified. I.e. if you want to force "coming from south" to a destination you need to specify the resulting "heading towards north" instead, which is 0.

Example

For this example we use andorra.osm.pbf.

You can follow this example in 2 ways:

  1. The Graphhopper example module (HeadingExample.java)
  2. With requests to a self-hosted server (the urls used in the following). You can self-host a graphhopper web server as described here

The docs for the API can be found here

Use Case

We will route from point 42.566757, 1.597751 to point 42.567396, 1.597807

Without Heading

localhost:8989/route?profile=car&point=42.566757,1.597751&point=42.567396,1.597807&type=json&instructions=false&points_encoded=false

without_heading

(the images are created by putting the resulting coordinates LineString in a GeoJSON and plotting them)

With Heading: Start Direction

The first heading parameter defines the start direction which should be preferred. In this case, we can set it to heading towards west (270 degree) and we see that a different route is returned

localhost:8989/route?profile=car&point=42.566757,1.597751&point=42.567396,1.597807&type=json&instructions=false&points_encoded=false&ch.disable=true&heading=270

Note that since the 'heading' parameter is currently not supported for speed mode, we need to disable it by using ch.disable=true

with_heading_start

With Heading: Start and End Direction

For all via or end points we can also specify a prefered heading. Especially at the end point it must be noted that we still need to define the direction as heading towards. In this case, we want to prefer coming from north, but we need to specify it with heading towards south (180 degree), although we know that the route ends here

localhost:8989/route?profile=car&point=42.566757,1.597751&point=42.567396,1.597807&type=json&instructions=false&points_encoded=false&ch.disable=true&heading=270&heading=180&

with_heading_start_stop

With Heading: End Direction

Headings with value 'NaN' won't be enforced. We can omit the start heading and only enforce a end heading

localhost:8989/route?profile=car&point=42.566757,1.597751&point=42.567396,1.597807&type=json&instructions=false&points_encoded=false&ch.disable=true&heading=NaN&heading=180&ch.disable=true

with_heading_stop

Heading Penalty

As stated in the docs

Penalty for omitting a specified heading. The penalty corresponds to the accepted time delay in seconds in comparison to the route without a heading.

We can modify the heading_penalty, which by default is 120 seconds. If we, in our use case with start and end heading, reduce it to 10 seconds, the route is equivalent to the route without a heading

localhost:8989/route?profile=car&point=42.566757,1.597751&point=42.567396,1.597807&type=json&instructions=false&points_encoded=false&ch.disable=true&heading=270&heading=180&heading_penalty=10&ch.disable=true