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How to clip roads to exclude those within a flood zone?

I have OSM road network data in QGIS along with a shapefile showing the possible extent of a flood. My question is: is it possible to exclude all of the roads that are in the flood zone (so as to ...
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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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travel survey multi stop routing problem

I have a travel diary survey dataset that I am attempting to transform into more useful information. Currently, the data comes in the format of: Survey# , PlaceVisited#, TravelMode, TripPurpose, ...
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Looking for best practice to connect multiple road vector line layers for routing (pgRouting) purposes

The Data I have: Bridges (line layer) Municipal_roads (line layer and does not include information in Bridges) State_roads (line layer that doesn't include Municipal_roads or Bridges) Question: ...
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Emergency Services: How to optimize routing by measured travel time?

I would like to optimize the service areas / catchment areas for an emergency service. Therefore, I have several measurement points on the streetmap, where people have stopped the travel time from ...
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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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QGIS Routing between two Points without Roads

I'm using QGIS 1.8 and i need to analyze possible routes for roman roads. Is there a Possibility to show routes which comply special criteria, e.g. straightest way between two points, or path which is ...
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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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Road Graph Route not Touching Start and End Points

I am trying to find the distance between 2 points using Road Graph. After I enter the points' coordinates and hit calculate, the route comes up but is not touching either point, and usually it is not ...
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Is it possible to integrate a route planner into QGIS?

I am looking for an open source GIS and now asking myself if it is possible to integrate a route planner into QGIS. The route planner should be able to calculate the distance from one position in the ...
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I need QGIS routing plug-in

I am new to pgrouting. How does it work? What benefits can I get from it? I tried the examples, read some articles, but could not find the QGIS routing plugin for Windows. It is not showing up in the ...