Snap to road

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    We aretrying to acces to snap to road api documentation accoding to search help (scheenshot attached) but we are redirected to "https://www.slpy.com/docs/snap-to-road" that always give this message"The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable."

    How can we access to snap to road service documentation?

  • Our ChatGPT help bot is great most of the time, but it does sometimes completely make things up or invent bad urls.

    While we don't have a specific Snap to road api, we do have our Reverse Geocoding API that provides similar functionality. If you use level=7 it will prefer to return the nearest road over finding the nearest exact address.

    If this doesn't quite work for your project, please let me know the details, and we will make sure we have something that works for you.

  • Well we need exactly snap-to-road functionality :)

    We have lot of routes provided by hardware devices that need to be processed to adjust them to the roads to be able to draw the linestring of the route.

    The idea of use Reverse Geocoding API is good but i'm afraid that is notenough, it will be slow andinnacurated and we also will need and extra intelligencethat a proper snap-to-road algorithm provide us to "complete the gaps".

    Currently we use OSRM on premise, but we were interested into replace it with a SAAS solution similar to the one you provide to US for replacing our current OSM and Nominatim cache/on primese solutions.

    Thanks.

  • That is certainly a more difficult problem to tackle!

    We will eventually have a Map Matching API once we launch our Navigation with Live Traffic product, but unfotunately I do not have a time frame on when that will be beyond later this year or early next. It will be based on Valhalla, but OSRM is another great solution.

    Until then, depending on your usage, you may be able to use the free Project OSRM API temporarily. They allow commercial use without any gaurantees, and you could possibly keep your on premise as a backup in case they block or break anything on their end. Just a thought.

    Please let me know if there are any other issues or solutions your tackling and I'll be happy to help where I can!

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