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Optimization for Route API

#1

Hello guys. I’m working with GraphHopper Open Source and my main usage is for Route API.
Do you have any suggestion to improve the dataset for this API?

For example:
I’m using a cropped osm.pbf file. Can I keep only tags for the road network, to reduce the dataset size (if I can do it, which are the tags used on Route API)?

I don’t use Isochrone API, Map Matching API, and Geocoding API. Actually, I don’t even use the front-end. Can I remove these features to reduce some computational resource?

Thanks in advance :smile:

#3

@karussell can you please mute him. It becomes annoying.

@Anyaoha please create your own thread if you have questions like @karussell just said to you in the last post? And stop hijacking other threads all the time.

#4

I am also interested in this question. Am curious to know what you have tried / found out. I am also a user like you, not a developer.

I have looked at the map of a city and removed “tracks” and “footpaths” etc and reduced the size considerably. I only left primary, secondary, tertiary and a few other highways in. I found that it is indeed faster, by about 10%, and affects fastest more than shortest. It also depends on whether you use CH or not.

#5

What are you requirements? Do you need to reduce RAM usage at query time or import time? Or do you mean something else?

#6

For now, I only trimmed my database to improve the import time.
Some time ago I did something related for a research - I filtered some tags to improve an algorithm’ analysis time.

The import time is not so important for me because I can handle it on my load balancer health-checker. Anyway, could be amazing to reduce it too.

The RAM usage is the most important in my opinion.
Today I’m using AWS EC2 instances for high memory usage.
I can see the memory freeable always decreasing, even without use.

Another point: my usage is the Route API exclusively. How can I remove the ‘front-end’?

#7

If query speed is sufficient you can try MMAP option for dataaccess but without SSD it will be much slower. It is always a balance of query speed, resources used when doing the import and RAM usage.

Another point: my usage is the Route API exclusively. How can I remove the ‘front-end’?

I suggest not to fork GH, instead create a custom MyApplication class in a project that depends on GH and then do not add the assets: https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper/blob/master/web/src/main/java/com/graphhopper/http/GraphHopperApplication.java#L39