Let your app find its way

Valhalla is a navigation tool for the world. Add routing to your app and let your users go anywhere on the planet, whether by foot, bike, car, bus, train, or ferry.

Valhalla makes it easy to let navigation find its way into your apps, based on open, improvable road network data from OpenStreetMap and public transit feeds from Transitland. Whether your users need multiple locations, points along a route, custom routing options, or multimodal routing, our API is ready to help.

Features

Flexible routes and options

Valhalla allows you to customize routes on the fly by embedding road characteristics and connectivity information into its tiled dataset. Your applications can use a wide variety of travel modes, with dynamic costing options.

Bicycle type and cycling speed can be changed, along with user preferences for paved roads, dirt paths and hills. Multimodal routes also have a rich set of options, including setting preferences for bus, rail, transfers, and walking distance. More information on route types and options is available within the API documentation.

Narrative guidance

Valhalla returns meaningful guidance and narrative directions to assist users during their trip. No more repeated instruction to “continue on [slight variant of road name]” — the narrative is succinct, easy to read, and useful. If your app is capable of voice guidance, audio-friendly prompts are provided in the results. All these thoughtful features lead to a happier and shorter trip. Learn more.

example of improved narrative guidance

Timely data updates

Valhalla handles the complexity of updates from OpenStreetMap so you don’t have to. It’s easy to add new Transitland data. Our team works with the wider open source data community to develop tools and methods aimed at improving data quality for routing and guidance.

Companion mobility services

Map Matching

Map Matching takes noisy GPS traces, snaps it to a road, and adds useful metadata for helping your data make sense for routing and analysis. Learn more

Isochrone

Isochrones provides insight into travel, whether by car, foot, bike, or public transit. Learn more

Optimized Route

Reduce the burden on your traveling salespeople! Calculate the most efficient way to visit multiple destinations. Learn more

Time-distance Matrix

Calculate travel times and distances between a lot of places with just one API call. Learn more

Transitland data

Get the freshest transit data to power your routing through the Transitland Feed Registry. Learn more

Get Started

Valhalla is a well-documented open source project. You can:

Mobility Explorer

Mobility Explorer makes it easy to see relationships between transit datasets, analyze travel options, and match your GPS data to route lines. Explore transit access, test out your GPS files, and analyze your commute.

Documentation

The Valhalla documentation has step-by-step walkthroughs and technical reference to use the service.