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Re:Mapzen Shutdown by jlengrand on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @05:47PM (#16056590)
There is a product from Mapzen that I have never seen anywhere else : Isochrones (https://mapzen.com/documentation/mobility/isochrone/api-refe...). Been interested in this for years (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9403699/map-of-all-point...) They were the only ones to provide a solution.

I am super sad to see this go and still haven't seen any alternative.

Happy to hear about anything in this direction :s.

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Re:Mapzen Shutdown by rburhum on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @05:55PM (#16056659)
Ahem:

- GRASS has had that since the 80s: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass72/manuals/addons/r.traveltime....

- ESRI has had those in web form since the 90s: https://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/analyze/create-drive...

- GeoTrellis has that working in an open source project on top of a Spark cluster: https://transit.geotrellis.io/travelshed.html

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Re:Mapzen Shutdown by jlengrand on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:06PM (#16056734)
Well, yes I can create isochrones myself indeed.

What I meant is the ability to generate them via an API without having to handle any GIS / routing data yourself and this for any city.

Handling these kind of services takes a lot of time, especially if this is only a sub-part of a more generic product.

Thanks for the alternatives though

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Re:Mapzen Shutdown by rburhum on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:10PM (#16056768)
The second option can be hosted at ArcGIS Online without you doing anything (i.e. loading anything). It is a REST API. Yes, it is hidden in their stupid docs.

The third option is faster than anything else, but would require you to load planet-osm.

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Re:Mapzen Shutdown by jlengrand on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:18PM (#16056824)
Ha, didn't know that. I'll look deeper into the docs then. Thanks!
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Re:Mapzen Shutdown by nbrigmon on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:31AM (#16061221)
100% agree. I used their isochrone API several times for consulting work.
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Re:Mapzen Shutdown by karussell on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:44PM (#16057013)
Thanks for mentioning this. Also keep in mind that mapzen its isochrone API:

https://github.com/valhalla/valhalla

as well as ours is open source:

https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper/pull/1237

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Re:Mapzen Shutdown by jlengrand on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:08PM (#16056747)
ha, nice alternatives! I didn't know about graphhopper thanks! I'll be looking into them.
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Re:Mapzen Shutdown by aglionby on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @07:51PM (#16057400)
Mapnificent [0] seems to do something similar and I had some fun playing around with it for my city. It doesn't seem to go into as much detail as Mapzen and doesn't have an API, but it's open source.

[0] https://www.mapnificent.net

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Re:Mapzen Shutdown by DanFau on Saturday January 06, 2018 @08:49AM (#16085215)
Oalley [0] is a simple tool to draw isochrones and the REST API is available here: https://api.oalley.fr/

[0] http://oalley.net/ disclaimer: I developed Oalley

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Re:Mapzen Shutdown by mcooley on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @10:31PM (#16058099)
Bing has one: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt814921.aspx
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Re:Mapzen Shutdown by merusame on Thursday January 11, 2018 @07:32AM (#16123254)
openrouteservice.org has them also, rest API also available
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