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An interconnected set of points and lines that represent possible routes from one location to another, OR in computing, a group of computers connected in order to share software, data, and peripheral devices, as in a local or wide area network.

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How to create a multimodal network?

How to add waterways and railroads without turn restrictions into the previously created street network dataset with turn restrictions, in order to create a multimodal network? For a university ...
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Is it possible to use Python to perform network analysis on only part of a network?

I have a large network dataset and want to perform an analysis on it which would output the start/end point, the distance between them and whether they're first, second or third (etc.) nearest ...
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Need an explanation on a network simplification algorithm

I try to implement the algorithm described in this paper (page 8), but there's a place that I can't understand, and the authors do not provide a more detailed explanation or pseudocode. They show how ...
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Is there an open source tool for both road network analysis and geocoding?

Is there any one open source software package that can perform both road network analysis and geocoding?
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How to get the distances (shortest path) between all pairs of points in the river network?

I have 2 vector shapefiles (one line, one point), and I have tried at least 4 ways to try to get the distance matrix at one time (and most concern the directions of each river segment) quantum ...
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Network Analyst hierarchy routing issues. (ArcMap)

My friend and I have created a walking network. We created a network without a hierarchy evaluation and the routing worked fine, but when we added a hierarchy to the equation many routes won't solve. ...
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determine the closest points on the network?

In ArcGIS, I have only a point layer relating to a hydrography network's pour points. Now I want to write code in VBA that selects a point from this layer, then highlight the closest points to this ...
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Three Dimensional Routing Input Location Errors and Questions, ArcGIS10

I am having a bit of a problem with my three dimensional route solving. I am creating an interior building network, and ideally would be routing from room to room. I created a line feature class, with ...
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IDatasetContainer2 CreateDataset method fails after upgrading to ArcObjects 10 [closed]

I have a Network Analyst routine that worked for 9.3 and does not work with 10. I was closely following the example at: ...
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Does pgRouting support turn-by-turn routing?

I have route list as result of pgRouting with street names. How to get messages "Turn left", "Go along" etc ... Can pgRouting do this or I need some other source and which?
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Is there a function or tool that will add vertices to polylines where endpoints are snapped to edges? (ArcMap)

My friend and I are creating a walking network, and we have been having issues getting the routing to work. We just realized that the reason why our routes are messed up is because we snapped our ...
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Help with GRASS V.Net.Path

GRASS has extensive and brilliant documentation, but I still have a bit of trouble using v.net.path. in the example for shortest path, it says: " #Shortest path: ID as first number, then cat1 and ...
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Sources for California roads data

I need a California roads network suitable for building a network dataset and routing to 120 locations. It needs to at least cover the Northern half of California. 2010 Census roads need alot of ...
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How to populate From Node and To Node fields for a polyline feature class? (ArcGIS 10)

I need to populate FNODE and TNODE fields for my roads dataset. I have an intersections point feature class that has unique ids, and I need each road segment to have an FNODE and TNODE value that ...
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How do you get access to a Network Analyst layer item in ArcPy?

I have a Python script that I'm working on. I have created a Closest Facility layer (in memory). I add facilities. I add incidents. I perform the Solve. These all complete. The only problem is, ...
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Clipping a buffer from network analyst shapefile to a base shapefile

I have exported my polygon shapefile which I got after I ran my Network Analyst into a shapefile. It has 6 buffer zones (delimited by time in increments of 10 minutes). When I check the attribute ...
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How to route railcars along railroads?

I'm very new to the world of GIS, but I'm learning a great deal from this site, as well as others. I fell like this should be 'easy' but I need to be pointed in the right direction. I'm trying to ...
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Finding Network overshoots under a certain distance

we have a large contiguous network that will have legitimate overshoots (like a dead end street), but may or may not have illegitimate overshoots. Using FME, I can't seem to manufacture a way to find ...
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How do I create a network from connected links

I have a bundle of links in 'some' networks. I need to find out which ones are connected to each other i.e. I need to find out which links are not connected to the 'main' network. I have been working ...
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Visualizing KMZ network link in QGIS

Is it possible to open and visualize and kmz network link in QGIS. If so what are the setps involved? Thanks in advance Cheers
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How to integrate every single street into a network analysis?

This is my first question, but I solved problems before thanks to this great community! It is also my first time working with a network analysis (ArcMap 10) and there are some problems which haven't ...
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Need to programmatically create Barriers in my Network Dataset

I have the following C# code to create a Network Dataset layer that I can bring into ArcMap. However, even though I am able to create a Route from the ND, I am not able to create Barriers of any kind ...
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How to join nodes to network lines ( and not the other points)

I'm trying to do a shortest path analysis on my network. In order to prepare the network and attach polygon centroids to the roads, I used GRASS' V.NET operation=connect. the problem with this ...
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Plot the Shortest Paths in a Grid without any clash at a point of time

The efficient algorithm needs to be done and proved for the best solution for the given problem: User inputs: (#) Size of the NxN Grid. (N); (#) No. of Paths: Z; (#) Source and Destination ...
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Render a map showing lots of individual traces/routes simultaneously

Google's "My places" is great for showing lots of traces (in my case, paths representing bike rides I've done). But it only shows 20 or so per page. I'd really like a map (a statically rendered .png ...
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How to create a service area using both streets and buslines in the same network?

Hello, I want to create a network analysis more difficult. Therefore, I want to calculate a Service Area around hospitals next to busstops. But: The network does not only consist of roads and ...
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How to create routable network by pgrouting with assign_vertex_id?

I'm trying to create the routable network as per http://underdark.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/a-beginners-guide-to-pgrouting/and use assign_vertex_id. Do I still need to create the node table? How would ...
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Network distance computations using GRASS

I'm an ArcGIS user who's interested in learning to use GRASS. Can anyone point out resources that will help me in learning how to obtain network distances between (1) residential locations (points) ...
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Create closest point on multilinestring to use in shortest_path()

I am working a routing based application where I need to create a route between two points of interest. The problem which I am facing occurs after calculating network topology using ...
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ArcGIS 10.1 Network Analysis- How do I get appropriate network dataset?

I have acquired London road dataset from the Open Street Map however after creating and building the network dataset in ArcCatalogue the solve tool could not return the routes because of errors no ...
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Error using Grass v.net

I'm trying to connect my network to a points layer with a threshold of 4500 meters. I have about 11000 or so entries in my polyline and about 24 in my points layer. I have alreday used v.distance, ...
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Create a Minimum Spanning Tree based on a street network (ArcView)

I hope you can help me with my network analyse problem (ArcGIS 10.0 SP2 - ArcView License) Background: I try to create a network of fiber optic cables to specific points along a street network. ...
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How can I calculate driving distance between 2 lat/long points

I want to build a .NET application that can get an input of 2 lat/long points and return an output that specified the driving distance between the points. Appreciate suggestions for API's or methods ...
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Map Matching? (Finding Nearest Roads…)

I am making Pedestrian Navigation System for my school I created node and arc and digitized buildings with ArcGIS. Then, exported KML to use Javascript Dijkstra's Algorithm to find route. So far, so ...
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Basic traffic volume map [duplicate]

I'm trying to map the volume of people traveling from various cities to popular mountain towns in British Columbia. I have a .csv containing the starting point, ending point and number of travelers. ...
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Merge Multipart Feature Line

I'd try to merge multipart feature line, but didn't work. would you please teach me how to merge multipart feature line? I work in version environmental and geometry network. Regards,
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Stopping the automatic snap to locator in Arcgis 10.0 reverse geocode

I built a network application using arcgis 10.0 sdk for wpf. The application uses a locator of highway milestones to reverse geocode (and identify) the "flag" the user clicked on the map. My Problem ...
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Retrieving XY from point graphics set in WPF network (arcgis 10.0)

I have a WPF application using ArcGIS 10. In the application I can set two point by clicking on map and calculate route between them. every time I click on the map, The application creates a ...
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how to set in arcgis network analysis that use every road segment max m times?

excuse me if my english ins't good. I have one incident and 120 facility. i wanna set criteria in Arcgis network analysis that if any road segment used for example m times, for other route doesn't use ...
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Open Network Dataset with ArcObjects SDK 10.0 .NET

I develop desktop standalone application and use this code to open Network Dataset, but it fails with HRESULT on datasetContainer3.get_DatasetByName(). public static ...
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How to find the watershed area for each point in the river network？

As title, I want to find the watershed area, but using QGIS. I have following files to work with： stream network shapefile(polyline) point shapefile clipped from the polyline shapefile I want to ...
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how to build a routeable network for pgRouting with srid 3785

I'm following the pgrouting-workshop http://workshop.pgrouting.org/chapters/topology.html and It works, but in my project I'm working with the mercator projection(srid 3785) and there is not a routed ...
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GRASS: Loss of data using v.net

I'm trying to build a network in GRASS in order to find the shortest path from any settlement out of 1120 (points), to one waste treatment facility out of 27 (points). I plan to use v.net.distance ...
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PostGIS Implementation of Brabyn and Skelly Road Network Travel Time Model

Is there a PostGIS implementation of the Brabyn and Skelly road network travel time model for the New Zealand road network? This model is outlined in: Brabyn L, Skelly C. Modeling population access ...
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GRASS - Creating an Attribute Based on Driving Distance

Is it possible to calculate the driving distance for each node of one layer (fire stations) to each node of another (address points)? After doing so, I need to sort all of the distances from shortest ...
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generate hydro network topology on a stream network

I want to generate hydro network topology on a stream network without calculating catchments and drainage points. My initial data are a Line layer (river network) and a DEM10 and the target is to ...
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Geoportal to harvest services hosted by Geoserver

I am trying to set up Geoportal to harvest services hosted by Geoserver. I tried follow this instructions: Open your Geoportal Server. Go to the Administration tab Choose the 'Add' option Choose ...
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Creating routable network table in PostGIS

I am trying to create the routable network table, as per http://underdark.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/a-beginners-guide-to-pgrouting/. Everytime I do it in PostGIS extension, QGIS crashes. The area is no ...
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Creating transfer edges for a multimodal network

I am trying to create transfer edges for a network and what I have done is used the near tool to get XY coordinates for the closest rail segment, and repeated for the closest road segment to each of ...
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What are non-commercial sources of road network other than OSM

I want to get the graph (Road Network) of Area of interest: Lon/Lat - Left/Bottom = -93.28587,44.9674 and Right/Top=-93.25351,44.9855 Minneapolis, MN Searching for a non-commercial source - aside ...

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