Difference between osrm route and match service

Question

What is the difference between OSRM route service and match service?

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Answer 1

According to OSRM documentation, route and match are 2 endpoints with different objectives:

• Route: It will return the fastest route between the coordinated in the supplied order. For example:

  https://router.project-osrm.org/route/v1/driving/-77.0969009399414,38.89397221118197;-77.08866119384766,38.88154580068335;-77.0745849609375,38.88515369217454;-77.05432891845703,38.90586211685612?overview=false&alternatives=true&steps=true

  A call to this endpoint will return the shortest path from lat: -77.0969009399414, lon: 38.89397221118197 to lat -77.08866119384766, lon: 38.88154580068335 and then to lat: -77.05432891845703, lon: 38.90586211685612

• Match: This endpoint works in a complete different way. Given a GPS dataset, the match service will try to match those points to the road network in the most pausible way.

So, if you have few GPS points and want to get the best route to visit them, you will use the route service. If you have a lot of GPS points and want to re-construct the most probable followed path, you will use the match service

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