Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) is a fast routing engine for use with OpenStreetMap data. It is designed to be used as a standalone routing engine or as a library for C++, Python, or JavaScript applications. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to install OSRM on nixOS Latest.
Make sure you have the following installed on your system:
You can install these using the following command:
sudo apt-get install git cmake gcc g++ libboost-all-dev
The first step is to clone the OSRM repository from Github. Open your terminal and run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend.git
This will create a directory called osrm-backend
in your current working directory.
Next, you need to build the OSRM engine. Navigate to the osrm-backend
directory using the command line:
cd osrm-backend
Then, create a build directory and change into it:
mkdir -p build
cd build
Now you can run CMake to generate the build files:
cmake ..
After CMake has finished, use Make to build the OSRM engine:
make
This will take a few minutes to complete.
To use OSRM, you will need to download OpenStreetMap (OSM) data for the area that you want to use it in. You can use the following command to download OSM data for your area:
wget http://download.geofabrik.de/your-country-latest.osm.pbf
Replace your-country
with the country you are interested in. This will download OSM data in PBF format.
After you have downloaded the OSM data, you need to preprocess it using OSRM's osrm-extract
and osrm-contract
tools. Run the following commands:
./osrm-extract -p ../profiles/car.lua your-country-latest.osm.pbf
./osrm-contract your-country-latest.osrm
This will create a fully preprocessed OSRM dataset that you can use for routing.
You're almost there! To use OSRM, you need to start the server. Run the following command to start the OSRM server:
./osrm-routed --algorithm mld your-country-latest.osrm
This will start the OSRM server and make it available at http://localhost:5000
.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed OSRM on nixOS Latest! You can now use it to generate fast, accurate routes for your applications.
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