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 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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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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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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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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How to find the Closest Facility (euclidean distance)?

I have some facilities and incidents, and I want to find the closest facility for each incident. I've done it via Network Analyst (with a network dataset) but I'm wondering if you can do it with just ...
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Are there any standards or common practices for performing a network analysis for emergency response?

I am working on a project using Network Analyst to determine official emergency response zones for fire departments. The shape of each zone will be determined by the network (at least 1 department ...
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How to calculate Network Service Areas in QGIS?

Is there any way in QGIS to apply service area buffers e.g if I have a point on a map I wish to show the service coverage of 1 mile, 2 mile, 3 mile, breaks using the road network?
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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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How to emulate Google Maps driving directions using pgRouting?

Would like to emulate google maps' driving directions functionality but use pgRouting instead. google's data over the project area & scale is quite a bit off so we want to use our own transport ...
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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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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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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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How to use Route Task in Network analysis tools

I am using esri network analysis tool and I just want to draw the path between two clicked point on the map (by using route task) I use the example code block in the following link ...
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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 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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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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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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Howto setup and use a remote GIS workstation (QGIS,GRASS,PostGIS)?

I'm using QGIS (and sometimes GRASS and PostGIS) on my 2009 MacBookPro for my thesis project. I was wondering (during an endless batch generalizing in QGIS) if I can set up a server so I can work from ...
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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 can I map a matrix of origins and destinations in QGIS?

I have a central point on a map, and I have other points in a separate layer (the location of a venue, and the origin cities of the venue visitors). Is there a plugin which would generate output ...
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How to create a branch network from several input points to an unique outlet in minimizing the distances?

I am searching a way to "hydrologically" connect upstream points to a unique downstream outlet by creating an optimized stream network as pictured below... The cummulated lenght of the stream lines ...
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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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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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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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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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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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How to automatically create all possible polyline routes connecting many point locations around a polygon obstruction?

Lets say I have 30 ports on the west of an island, and 30 on the east, and need to calculate all possible shipping distances between each and every port, with the routes having to steer around the ...
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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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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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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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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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How to Find Dead-ends in a Road Network

I'm trying to remove all the dead-end roads in a road dataset (lines) that are less than 100m long. How do I identify roads that are dead-ends (no exit)? The 100m part is easy. I know how to use Arc ...
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Creating drive time polygons using open source tools

Is anyone using open source tools and/or data to generate drive time polygons that radiate out from a given location? For example, I have used ESRI products like Network Analyst and Business Analyst ...
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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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What's an efficient way of detecting road junctions on a map?

I may receive maps from any source for my project, and for the C++ algorithm I'm making, it's imperative for the algorithm to know where road junctions (nodes where more than two road segments meet) ...
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Conflating Two Network Datasets in ArcGIS

I am looking to merge two network datasets in ArcGIS 10.0. I have an ArcInfo license and have trawled this forum but am looking for some clarification. I want to merge two road networks but only make ...
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Get the junction id for the roads in a network dataset

I have a network dataset with roads and junctions. I am wondering what class I can use in arcpy to extract FromJunctionId and the ToJunctionId for each road segment in the network dataset. Thanks.
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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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How can I turn a vector layer into a graph G = (V, E)?

I have a number of rail networks, in the form of shapefiles of the "line" type. I want to turn them into a more abstract graph format, i.e. the kind with vertices and edges, not chart-type graphs. ...
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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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Using the ArcGIS Local Routing Tool . . geoprocessing in the runtime

When I create a model in ArcGIS using the Network Analyst Tools, I am able to create Locations and make the Route Layer and Solve. However, I need to be able to add barriers as well as locations, ...
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How to find the shortest path within a polygon? [closed]

I am trying to find a way to calculate the shortest path from one point to another without crossing the boundaries of a polygon. I would like to do it with QGIS as I do not have access to ArcGis. It ...
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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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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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How do you define rail network branch geocodes

As per the attached document I'm trying to define a rail network by providing geocodes for each rail stop, how would I define a 'stop' as a junction for a branch in the network without having to ...
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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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Find a proper path between two nodes in a grid

This question is about finding a proper path (route) between two nodes (P,Q) in a grid (i.e., graph, network, ...). In our concept, we define a path proper (nice) if it is the most similar* to the ...
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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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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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Using QGIS calculate distance of point along a line

I have lots of points, and a road (lines) and I would like to calculate from point A to point B (the distance must route through the roads (lines). I found this QGIS calculate distance of point along ...

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