How to apply routing functions in CARTO

Learn how to generate routes from origins to destinations with CARTO routing functions.

In order to generate a route from one point to another, CARTO users can use the CARTO Data Services API. The routing functions will return the geometry, and also the trip duration (in seconds) and trip length (in kilometers).

If you have a table with latitude and longitude coordinates for both origin and destination, you can use a query like this one:

SELECT
    o.cartodb_id,
    o.origin,
    o.destination,
    r.duration/60 as minutes,
    r.length,
    r.shape as the_geom
FROM
    table_name o,
    table_name d,
    cdb_route_point_to_point(
        cdb_latlng(o.lat_o, o.long_o),
        cdb_latlng(d.lat_d, d.long_d),
        'car') as r
WHERE
    o.cartodb_id = d.cartodb_id