Routing/Taxi to

It has been proposed that this page be deleted or replaced by a redirect. See the discussion page for further information.
The given reason is: The purpose of this page is limited. It is a list of funny route requests over very long distances. However, it is unmaintained and all the links to OSRM are broken again (they have been fixed 4 years ago). I don't think that the page is a part of the documentation of OSM which is worth to be kept if it is part of the documentation at all; the page will not be deleted as long as there are still links to this page.

This "Taxi to ..." mini-project is funny approach to showcase the global strength of OSM's grassroot approach. The idea is to compare long-distance routing results on OSM data with those from other routing providers. And we're talking real long distances here.

In most of the cases the road layout for the route is already covered in OSM data but it's either not connected (duplicate nodes) or incorrectly tagged. Use Keepright to pinpoint these errors down and fix them in your area.

Taxi to ...

Route	Comment	OSRM	Google Maps	Yahoo! Maps
Cairo, Egypt ⬌ Nordkapp, Norway (North Africa to the pole)	Route part Ankara <-> Nordkapp shows a 500 km difference: 4 994 km Cloudmade 5 477 km Google	6 782 km	9 665 km	No Route
New Delhi, India ⬌Lisbon, Portugal	India to Europe	9 925 km	No Route
Bamako, Mali ⬌ Cape Town, South Africa (Through Africa)		10 371 km	No Route
Anchorage, Alaska, USA ⬌ Panama City, Panama	Panamericana North	7 255 km	6 891 miles (11 087 km)	No Route
Punta Arenas, Chile ⬌ Caracas, Venezuela	Parts of Panamericana South	9 405 km	No route available.	10220.9km
Melbourne ⬌ Darwin (Australia)		3 753 km	3 761 km	No Route
Ibusuki ⬌ Wakkanai (Japan South to North)	Google's public transport link is cool.		2 889 km (Public transport)	No Route
Fisterra ⬌ Omsukchan (Омсукчан) (Portugal to Eastern Russia)	Westernmost to easternmost routable point on the Eurasia landmass.	14 368 km	No Route
Nordkapp, NO ⬌ Villa S. Giovanni, IT (Straight Central European North-South)	Wanted to go down to Pachino on Sicily, but the ferry-link to Siciliy doesn't seem to work	4 899 km	4 947 km (car), 5 358 km (walk with 1 222 km ferry)	5249,5 km
Pillars of Hercules (Tarifa (near Gibraltar) to Ceuta)		110 km	66,1 km
Brest ⬌ Vladivostok	"Une Europe de Brest à Vladivostok" comme disait le Général de Gaulle	11 626 km		No Route
North bank of Alaska, USA ⬌ Panama City	Some detours.	8 699 km	5 345 miles, 8 600 km	No Route
south of Ponta Arenas, Chile ⬌ Belem PA, Brazil		7 500 km	No route	No Route
Abha, Saudi Arabia ⬌ Extreme East Russia (Vostok area)	12 122 km	No Route
Surt, Libya ⬌ Extreme East Russia (Vostok area)		13 384 km	No route available.	No Route
Lhasa, Tibet, China ⬌ Amsterdam, Netherlands	Descent from the highest to the lowest capital in the world	9 566 km	No route available.	No Route
Panama City ⬌ Goose Bay, NB, Canada		9 482 km	No route available.	No Route
Camino de Santiago Le Puy en Velay ⬌ Santiago de Compostela	Via Podensis & Camino Francés pilgrimage	1 351 km (bij car)	1321 km	1490.7 km (by car)
Via Romea Francigena Canterbury ⬌ Roma	Via Romea Francigena pilgrimage	1 734 km (by car)	[1] not relevant : too much ferry for a pilgrimage
Cologne Main Station (Köln Hauptbahnhof) ⬌ Athen	Reported in the media: Express.de: Taxi crossed half Europe due to Icelandic volcano eruption.	2 536 km	2578,6km
South Afrika ⬌ East China	Seems that theres a lot of new road in africa.	19 964 km	No Route	No Route
Cairo ⬌ Beirouth	Dream of peace.	1 061 km	No Route
Silk Road	Xi'an to Antakya	8 285 km	No Route	No Route
Croisière noire	André Citroën expedition through Africa, 1924-1925	15871 km
Croisière jaune	André Citroën expedition through Asia, 1931-1932	Pamir group: 9421 km China group: No Route
News from Tartary/Forbidden Journey	Peter Fleming and Ella (Kini) Maillart travelled from Beijing to Gilgit (via the Takla Makan) in 1935.	6 511 km	No route
Longest Routing From somewhere near Vladivostok to somewhere near Cape Town	Probably the longest routing available on any public routing engine.	20 803 km	27,193 km
Even Longer Routing From Omsukchan (Омсукчан) to somewhere near Cape Town	Probably the longest routing available on any public routing engine. Google routes through Europe and go by ferry between Marseille and Alger. A longer route will probably become available in the future because of a highway to Anadyr (Анадырь) under construction	23 830 km