In hyperlocal commerce (online food & grocery delivery), distance plays a critical role in every aspect of the platform’s operation. It impacts areas such as entity discovery (serviceable restaurant…

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Distance is critical for hyperlocal commerce operations such as food and grocery delivery, impacting various aspects like delivery time estimates and costs. OpenStreetMap (OSM) provides a scalable and cost-effective solution compared to third-party services. However, its crowdsourced nature can lead to data inaccuracies, affecting distance computations. The first part of this series introduces metrics and system architecture for evaluating OSM road data quality and benchmarks routing configurations to improve accuracy. Metrics like OSM-APLS and delta-coverage help assess and validate the reliability of OSM data, while routing configurations like shortest, fastest, and short-fastest are evaluated using Graphhopper.

The OSM Distance Service Part 1: Evaluation Metrics and Routing Configurations