Obtaining the routing distance between two addresses should not be a hassle with
current technology. Unfortunately, this is more complicated than it first seems.
Recently, several commands have been implemented for this purpose
(traveltime, traveltime3, mqtime, osrmtime), but most
of them became obsolete only a few months after their introduction or appear
complicated to use. In this article, we introduce the community-contributed
command georoute, which retrieves travel distance and
travel time between two points defined either by their addresses or by their
geographical coordinates. Compared with other existing commands, it is simple to
use, efficient in terms of computational speed, and versatile regarding the
information that can be provided as input.
