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Valhalla

Open-source routing engine with multimodal support

Maps & GIS ★ 6.3k stars Hard setup MIT

Valhalla is an open-source routing engine and accompanying libraries for use with OpenStreetMap data. It supports car, bicycle, pedestrian, and transit routing along with isochrones and map matching.

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Key features

  • Multimodal routing
  • Isochrone generation
  • Map matching
  • Tiled routing data

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Mature project with 6.3k GitHub stars
  • Written in C++

Is Valhalla secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Valhalla's latest release (3.9.1). OSV.dev lists 2 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2026-54716, published 2026-09-17 (27 days ago)

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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