30 Days of Maps Day 13 - A new tool

Day 13 of the #30DayMapChallenge and today's theme is a new tool - Use a tool you’ve never tried before. The challenge has always been about trying new things. Use a tool, software, or drawing technique you’ve never worked with before.

At Tekantis, our focus so far has been on the geospatial visualisation capabilities of Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, but we're getting an increasing number of requests to features that aren't possible to provide purely in the visualisation layer. We've therefore been exploring how to provide some of these more advanced capabilities such as routing and travel times.

As an option I've set up OpenRouteService locally to experiment to see whether it could be an option for providing some of our capabilities. Here's a simple report as a result of some initial testing. The lines in the report represent the fastest driving routes between Heathrow Airport and London City Airport, either as a car or a HGV. I've also included a travel time isochrone representing how far you can drive in an HGV from London City Airport, in 5 minute increments.

If you'd like to see how the report was built, you can download it here.