Find a route and directions

Learn how to find a route and directions with the route service.

Routing is the process of finding the path from an origin to a destination in a street network. You can use the route service to find routes, get driving directions, calculate drive times, and solve complicated, multiple vehicle routing problems. To create a route, you typically define a set of stops (origin and one or more destinations) and use the service to find a route with directions. You can also use a number of additional parameters such as barriers and mode of travel to refine the results.

In this tutorial, you use ArcGIS REST JS to access the routing service to get route. You click on the map to get an origin and destination that are used to get a route and directions from the route service. The directions are also displayed on the map.

Prerequisites

You need an ArcGIS Location Platform or ArcGIS Online account.

Steps

Create a new pen

  1. To get started, either complete the Display a map tutorial or .

Get an access token

You need an access token with the correct privileges to access the resources used in this tutorial.

  1. Go to the Create an API key tutorial and create an API key with the following privilege(s):

    • Privileges
      • Location services > Basemaps
      • Location services > Routing
  2. Copy the API key access token to your clipboard when prompted.

  3. In CodePen, update the accessToken variable to use your access token.

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    const accessToken = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN";
    const basemapId = "arcgis/streets";
    const basemapURL = `https://basemapstyles-api.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/styles/v2/styles/${basemapId}?token=${accessToken}`;
    olms.apply(map, basemapURL);
    

To learn about the other types of authentication available, go to Types of authentication.

Add references to ArcGIS REST JS

  1. In the <head> element, add references to the ArcGIS REST JS library.

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        <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/ol@v10.1.0/ol.css" type="text/css" />
        <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/ol@v10.1.0/dist/ol.js"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/ol-mapbox-style@12.3.5/dist/olms.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    
        <script src="https://unpkg.com/@esri/arcgis-rest-request@4.0.0/dist/bundled/request.umd.js"></script>
        <script src="https://unpkg.com/@esri/arcgis-rest-routing@4.0.0/dist/bundled/routing.umd.js"></script>
    
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Update the map

A navigation basemap layer is typically used in geocoding and routing applications. Update the basemap layer to use arcgis/navigation.

  1. Update the basemap and the map initialization to center on location [-79.3832,43.6532], Toronto.

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        <script>
    
          const accessToken = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN";
    
          const map = new ol.Map({
            target: "map"
          });
    
          const view = new ol.View({
    
            center: ol.proj.fromLonLat([-79.3832, 43.6532]), // Toronto
    
            zoom: 13
          });
          map.setView(view);
    
          const basemapId = "arcgis/navigation";
    
          const basemapURL = `https://basemapstyles-api.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/styles/v2/styles/${basemapId}?token=${accessToken}`;
    
          olms.apply(map, basemapURL)
    
    
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Add end point layers

To display circles for the start and end of the route, you will create two circle vector layers.

  1. Define variables to hold the start layer, end layer, and the route layer that you will create. Create a function called addCircleLayers.

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          const view = new ol.View({
    
            center: ol.proj.fromLonLat([-79.3832, 43.6532]), // Toronto
    
            zoom: 13
          });
          map.setView(view);
    
          let startLayer, endLayer, routeLayer;
          function addCircleLayers() {
    
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  2. Inside the function, create a new Vector layer for the startLayer. Use a Circle style to make a white circle with black stroke. Add it to the map with map.addLayer. Do the same for endLayer, but with a black fill and white stroke.

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          let startLayer, endLayer, routeLayer;
          function addCircleLayers() {
    
            startLayer = new ol.layer.Vector({
              style: new ol.style.Style({
                image: new ol.style.Circle({
                  radius: 6,
                  fill: new ol.style.Fill({ color: "white" }),
                  stroke: new ol.style.Stroke({ color: "black", width: 2 })
                })
              })
            });
            map.addLayer(startLayer);
            endLayer = new ol.layer.Vector({
              style: new ol.style.Style({
                image: new ol.style.Circle({
                  radius: 7,
                  fill: new ol.style.Fill({ color: "black" }),
                  stroke: new ol.style.Stroke({ color: "white", width: 2 })
                })
              })
            });
    
            map.addLayer(endLayer);
    
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  3. Add a map load event handler by adding a then function to the olms function. Inside, call addCircleLayers.

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          const basemapId = "arcgis/navigation";
    
          const basemapURL = `https://basemapstyles-api.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/styles/v2/styles/${basemapId}?token=${accessToken}`;
    
          olms.apply(map, basemapURL)
    
    
            .then(function (map) {
              addCircleLayers();
    
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Add a click handler

You need a start (origin) and end (destination) to create a route. The first click will set a source for the startLayer and the second click will set a source for the endLayer. You will use a GeoJSON feature format to set these sources. Use a click event handler to respond to these clicks.

  1. Add a variable to store whether the next click will be for the start or end of the route. Set it initially to start. Add a variable to store the coordinates for each end. Create a GeoJSON feature format and store it to a geojson variable.

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          let currentStep = "start";
          let startCoords, endCoords;
    
          const geojson = new ol.format.GeoJSON({
            defaultDataProjection: "EPSG:4326",
            featureProjection: "EPSG:3857"
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  2. Add a click event handler to the map. Inside, transform the coordinate property of the event object to latitude and longitude and store it in a variable. Use this to create a GeoJSON Point.

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            featureProjection: "EPSG:3857"
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            const point = {
              type: "Point",
              coordinates
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  3. Use setSource on the current layer to set a new Vector source. Use the readFeatures method of the geojson feature format you defined earlier to set the data. Save the coordinates for later use.

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              endCoords = coordinates;
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  4. After setting the start point source, check if there are already end coordinates stored, indicating the user is resetting the route. If so, clear the endCoords variable and the clear method to remove the end point layer features.

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  5. At the top right, click Run. You should be able to click in two places to set a white circle for the start, and a black circle for the end.

Add route layer

To display the route line that you will receive from the routing service, you will create another Vector layer.

  1. Create an addRouteLayer function. Inside, define a routeLayer with a blue stroke, 4 pixel width and medium opacity. Use map.addLayer to add it to the map.

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                stroke: new ol.style.Stroke({ color: "hsl(205, 100%, 50%)", width: 4, opacity: 0.6 })
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              // clear endCoords and route if they were already set
              if (endCoords) {
                endCoords = null;
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Get the route

To find the route, you use ArcGIS REST JS to call the solveRoute function to access the route service. Make sure to warn the user if there is a problem accessing the service.

To update the routeLayer with the route, you create a new Vector source from the response's routes.geoJson property.

  1. Create a function called updateRoute. Inside, create a new ApiKeyManager to access the route service. Call solveRoute with the two sets of coordinates as a stops array.

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                authentication
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              endLayer.setSource(
                new ol.source.Vector({
                  features: geojson.readFeatures(point)
                })
              );
              endCoords = coordinates;
              currentStep = "start";
    
              updateRoute(startCoords, endCoords);
    
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Show directions

The data returned from the route service contains directions information. To display it, you can create a styled <div> element. You will populate this with data drawn from the directions attribute of the response.

  1. In the <body> section, add a <div> element with an id of directions.

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      <body>
    
        <div id="map"></div>
    
        <div id="directions">Click on the map to create a start and end for the route.</div>
    
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  2. In the <style> section, style the #directions element with absolute position so it sits in front of the map, and a fixed width and height.

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        <style>
          html,
          body,
          #map {
            padding: 0;
            margin: 0;
            height: 100%;
            width: 100%;
            font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
            font-size: 14px;
            color: #323232;
          }
    
          #directions {
            position: absolute;
            width: 30%;
            max-height: 50%;
            right: 20px;
            top: 20px;
            overflow-y: auto; /* Show a scrollbar if needed */
            background: white;
            font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana;
            line-height: 1.5;
            font-size: 14px;
            padding: 10px;
          }
    
        </style>
    
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  3. In the query response handler, set the contents of the <div> element using the directions attribute. Join the text attributes of each element of the features array to make the HTML contents of the <div> element. Use <br> tags between each line to create a line break.

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              .then((response) => {
    
                routeLayer.setSource(
                  new ol.source.Vector({
                    features: geojson.readFeatures(response.routes.geoJson)
                  })
                );
    
                const directionsHTML = response.directions[0].features.map((f) => f.attributes.text).join("<br/>");
                document.getElementById("directions").innerHTML = directionsHTML;
                document.getElementById("directions").style.display = "block";
    
              })
    
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  4. Update the click handler to also clear the directions when clearing the route.

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              // clear endCoords and route if they were already set
              if (endCoords) {
                endCoords = null;
                endLayer.getSource().clear();
    
                routeLayer.getSource().clear();
    
                document.getElementById("directions").innerHTML = "";
                document.getElementById("directions").style.display = "none";
    
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Run the app

In CodePen, run your code to display the map.

When the map displays, you should be able to click on it once to create an origin point and again to create a destination point. The routing service should then display the resulting route and turn-by-turn directions.

What's next?

Learn how to use additional ArcGIS location services in these tutorials:

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