A consumer web product from COD Solutions Oy that turns full-Europe OpenStreetMap, OSRM, and a stack of open European datasets into practical, plain-language city-to-city driving-route guides. Distance, duration, the actual roads you'll drive, climate, fuel band, EV charging, elevation, national parks, and local driving rules — in eight EU languages, free to use.
Classic map apps show you the route. FromToEurope tells you what the drive is actually like, what changes at each border, and helps you decide when and how to take it — for any pair of cities across Europe.
Distance, duration, the primary roads (A1, E40, autostrada), border crossings, and key driving moves on the route — computed from real OpenStreetMap geometry and OSRM, not editorial estimates.
Speed limits, alcohol limits, vignette and toll systems, low-emission zones, winter-tyre mandates and emergency numbers per country — surfaced inline so a Paris-to-Berlin driver knows what changes at Aachen.
Native-language route narratives in EN, DE, FR, IT, ES, NL, PT, PL with locale-translated URL segments (/de/strecke/X/nach/Y, /fr/itineraire/X/a/Y) and full hreflang reciprocity. Search engines treat the site as one entity.
Every figure on a FromToEurope route page traces back to a public, authoritative source. No republished blogs, no recycled affiliate listicles.
Self-hosted OSRM over a full-Europe OpenStreetMap extract, re-preprocessed monthly to absorb OSM updates. Distances, durations, step-level geometry, and primary road extraction.
Open-Meteo Climate API for monthly normals at each city — five-year averages drawn from ECMWF and national models, used for seasonal driving advice and the per-route weather table.
European Commission Weekly Oil Bulletin for diesel and petrol consumer prices per country — refreshed every Tuesday, used for relative cross-border fuel-pricing bands in route narrative.
Open Charge Map for charging-station coverage along each route corridor, with fast-charger thresholds and per-country density signals for the EV-feasibility classification.
OpenTopoData (SRTM 30m) for elevation profiles — peaks, climb, descent — and OSM Overpass for national parks the route crosses or skirts. Snow-risk and pass-driving cues come from this combination.
Wikivoyage for city-level intros (with attribution), Wikimedia Commons for hero photography mirrored to Cloudflare R2 for performant delivery. POIs along route via OSM Overpass.
Design, engineering, data pipeline, and long-term roadmap all live with the same Helsinki team. Sister product to US Trip Planner — same data-first DNA, European scope.
COD Solutions owns the FromToEurope product direction, the data infrastructure, and the user experience. No reseller, no white label — improvements ship as a whole.
Every route page cites the open datasets behind its numbers, links to the methodology, and shows when the page was last reviewed. AI-assisted narrative drafting is disclosed on every route page.
Fuel prices refresh weekly, route geometry rebuilt on monthly OSM cycles, climate normals annually. Quality gate keeps thin pages out of the indexable surface so search engines see only fully-built routes.
Try a route page to see how open European data becomes a practical road-trip guide. Free, no account required.
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