Profile

A profile is the most important concept to configure routing. There are two important concepts related to this:

  • Vehicle: A definition of a vehicle that travels the network. This can be a car but also a pedestrian for example.
  • Profile: A profile describes the behaviour of a vehicle.

Default profiles

A few default vehicle profiles are available, but only for OpenStreetMap (OSM).

OpenStreetMap (OSM)

If you are only planning on using OpenStreetMap (OSM) and you just need a default profile these are available:

  • Car (Itinero.Osm.Vehicles.Vehicle.Car): A default car profile, all restrictions enabled.
    • Fastest: Calculates fastest functional routes.
    • Shortest: The shortest route.
    • Classifications: Follows a bit more aggressively the road classifications.
  • Bicycle (Itinero.Osm.Vehicles.Vehicle.Bicycle): A default bicycle profile.
    • Fastest: Calculates fastest functional routes.
    • Shortest: The shortest route.
    • Balanced: Chooses dedicated cycling infrastructure.
    • Networks: Chooses dedicated cycling networks.
  • Pedestrian (Itinero.Osm.Vehicles.Vehicle.Pedestrian): A default pedestrian profile.
    • Shortest: The shortest route.

You can use the profiles as follows:

// using Itinero;
// using Itinero.IO.Osm;
// using Itinero.Osm.Vehicles;

// get a profile.
var profile = Vehicle.Car.Fastest(); // the default OSM car profile.

Custom profiles

One of the most important features in Itinero is the option to define your own profiles and completely customize them using either:

  • Lua Profiles: A scripting language, this allows embedding the profiles in the RouterDb. This is the default and preferred option.
  • C# Profile: Define your profiles in C#, or any other .NET language for that matter.

Learn more about the RouterPoint concept.