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Calculating distance and/or time taken to travel from population centre to nearest hospital in QGIS

I'm trying to find out how long it would take to travel by car from each of the Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA) in Norfolk, England to the nearest Hospital (or just what the distance is and I ...
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Driving directions and multi-modal route planning service for a city with OpenStreetMap data

First off I'd like to mention that I've never come close to anything-GIS until a few weeks ago when I thought of this. So please expect some layman's questions. I'm looking to create driving ...
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How do I apply Dijkstra's algorithm in Python with PostGIS data?

I have currently parsed OSM data, from a PBF file, into a pgRouting database with the use of osm2po, an excellent parsing tool. I don't however want to use the algorithms provided by pgRouting and ...
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calculate costs based on way difficulty

I am using Osm2Po to find routes between two points. I am trying to find routes based on the difficulty specified by the user. Basically, I would like to calculate the cost based on some parameter ...
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How to set up an OSM routing server

I would like to set up an OSM routing server on my LAMP stack. I am interested in doing a lot of of routing queries. I have a search function that is closely related to getting the driving distance ...
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How can I get a road network to run a simulation on?

I'm new to GIS and I'm asking this a bit out of desperation, but I'm trying my best not to get overwhelmed. :) I want to download a file that contains data of a road network (of what road network is ...
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Is there an opensource software to route openstreetMap data based on database?

I have a project that consists in aggregate traffic information on OpenStreetMap for routing proposes. My first idea is to use the OSM data from the region on a database, so I can aggregate the ...
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What's the best way to implement routing through areas such as parking lots?

I'm using OSM2PO to route for walking directions and I've noticed a lot of the OSM walking paths are not ideally setup. For example there are many paths which get divided up by parking lots, which ...
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How do you ignore one-ways osm2po?

I've been using OSM2PO and it's a great system so far. However, in version 4.5.2, I can't seem to ignore the one-way restrictions for calculating walk distances. In the browser version, I check on ...
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How to route on OSM without using any already released routing engine?

i'm a computer science student and a complete beginner in GIS and stuff. i'm trying create my own web-based multi-modal journey planner as my thesis. And as it is a thesis i cant use any ready-made ...
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How to join polygons and lines vector maps from openstreetmap?

I am struggling with the data format OSM gives me: I want to use OSM data for routing, but all round-abouts and parking lots are not in the lines layer. They are situated in the poly(lines) layer. ...
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What is the best map provider solution for repetitive routing use?

[edit] What is the best solution in terms of cost effectiveness, stability & speed for running a lot of routing requests and comparing them. lots of times over and over? I understand now that it ...
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How to fix Graphserver warning “osmdb has no edges!”?

I'm really new to GIS. I have some shapefiles data that I'm trying to import in graphserver. I'm doing: gs_osmdb_compile output3.osm output3.osmdb And the result is: WARNING: osmdb has no edges!. ...
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Queries on virtual network in Spatialite only make errors

I've installed Spatialite 2.4 in Ubuntu. I try to convert an osm file into a roads network using this tutorial and make searches on it, but the queries only produce "no column" errors. $ ...
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Assessing OpenStreetMap coverage for international routing

I posted the following question on the main StackOverflow website, but was informed that I might get a better response here. Hence I'm copying it below. Note however, that I have an active bounty on ...
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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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Routing Application in Windows

I am making an routing web application similar to Google Maps 'Get Direction' feature. But because of the limited control and data on GMaps, I decided to use OpenStreetMap instead. This also made me ...
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Geoserver Routing with OSM data and PostGIS

Does Geoserver have a routing functionality for the OSM data in PostGIS?
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How to convert OSM Data to PostgreSQL for Routing Purposes?

I'm creating a routing application using OpenStreetMap. Currently, my task is to convert the data from an OSM file to PostgreSQL. I read about osm2pgsql, but the problem is it says there that ...