use pyvalhalla with a remote valhalla server

[Bondify]

hi, and first of all: thank you for such an amazing project :)

I've been using Valhalla for some time now through HTTP request and would like to explore switching to pyvalhalla as it seems to be much faster (as per your comments in valhalla/valhalla#3796 (reply in thread))

Nonetheless, I would like to understand if I can call a remote Valhalla server with pyvalhalla or if it has to be deployed locally. From what I saw in the documentation, it sets the config from a locally generated graph (config = get_config(tile_extract='./custom_files/valhalla_tiles.tar', verbose=True) ), but I'd need it to look for the tiles in the server where the valhalla image was deployed.

Thanks for your help,

[nilsnolde]

Jep, it has to be deployed locally, i.e. the graph has to be local to your calling code. Otherwise there's no benefit. The only thing this saves is the HTTP roundtrip, as I mentioned in that comment.

[Bondify]

I see, that makes sense. Thanks a lot for the quick reply @nilsnolde