Summary
Routing you can ask for by name, including the matrix that answers which one is nearest.
The by-places variants are the useful part: you name two places, and the server geocodes, routes and hands back both the match it made and the route, so a wrong match is visible rather than silent. The matrix tools answer the which-of-these-five-is-closest question in a single call instead of one route at a time.
What it is
A server over the Mapbox API that turns coordinates or place names into route details and travel-time matrices.
What you get
- Route details between coordinates, with steps, distance and duration (mapbox_directions)
- The same routing from place names alone: the server geocodes each name first and reports what it matched (mapbox_directions_by_places)
- Driving, driving-with-traffic, walking and cycling profiles on the routing calls
- Travel-time and distance matrices between coordinates, with sources and destinations selectable by index (mapbox_matrix)
- Matrices across a list of named places, returned with the geocoding result for each (mapbox_matrix_by_places)
- A two-letter language code on the place-based calls, so results come back in the language you asked in
Requirements
Access to the Mapbox API: every call is served by Mapbox, not computed by the server itself.