External APIs: Feature research

[oliviadargel]

User story

1. As a backend developer
2. I want to research for features that OSM/Here API have
3. So that I can integrate the most important features into the Backend component

Acceptance criteria

• possible features are listed
• focus on routing
• possible features were discussed within the group
• the result of the discussion is written down in issues (see #152 as example)

Definition of done

• Code was reviewed by another person
• GitHub CI runs successfully
• Feature is merged into main branch

[Decappi]

2021-12-14 External API research

• OSM
  • Bounding box for the results
  • Tile service:
    • Returns all vector tiles in a given square, allowing to gather info road sections
      • name of the road
      • speed
      • bearing
      • turn_angle
  • Overpass API
    • query for features like
      • street surface
      • sidewalk
      • maxspeed
      • lit (lighting conditions)
      • road type
        • highway
        • cycleway
        • footway
        • sidewalk
        • winter road
      • road signs like
        • overtaking
        • parking
        • priority road
      • amenity
        • charging station
        • bar
        • biergarten
        • restaurant
        • toilets
      • barrier
        • toll_booth
        • toll_gantry
  • Openrouteservice
    • Allows for navigation and excluding toll roads
  • Graphhopper
    • Charging stations along the route

[Decappi]

• HERE
  • Vector Tile API
    • roads layer
      • toll
      • fclass with motorway etc
      • water features
  • Routing API
    • calculate a route
    • add a stopover
    • avoidance
      • routing zones by ID
      • category
    • EV consumption
  • Geocoding
    • Political views
    • Spelling correction
    • Query term completion
    • Addresses