Routing consists of finding optimal paths along geographic networks such as roads or trail systems.
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How to store route names of a stop belonging to multiple routes
I've been reading the ArcGIS help files on route analysis to gather more information on what attributes are stored with Stops. Maybe I've stared at the screen too long, but I cannot seem to understand ...
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How to build a website or mobile app with a circular routing capability? [closed]
Hoping this is an easy one...
I want to build a web/mobile app for a college project which allows the user to enter a start point and a distance to travel e.g. distance to travel = 6km and the site ...
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Can I Start and End an OSM2PO route in the middle of a road segment?
I need to be able to start and end a route in the middle of a road segment as opposed to a vertex/intersection. I know that you can disable snapping when stating your start/end but the route still ...
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Solving a route in a multimodal network dataset does not use all forms of transport available
After having completed Exercise 2 in the official Esri Network Analyst Tutorial, I decided to find a route in the multimodal dataset, to see how it functions. After adding several network locations ...
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Finding nearest Stop location (DB) from current location
I could not think of a Title which exactly describes my problem, but I will try to explain.
I have a bus route as DB table where Lat/Long of each Bus stop is stored.
Now, I get live GPS cordinates ...
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Not able to create a geoprocessing package in ArcMap using my own Network Dataset and associated data
I went through the following two examples to get an idea of how to create a custom, local Routing Task . . .
This is a walkthrough that takes you step by step through the creation of your first ...
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Creating a custom, local Route Task
I'm trying to replicate something similar to the ArcGIS WPF Runtime SDK (C:\ArcGIS\WPF1.0\SDK\Samples\Sample Application\Sample Application.exe) "Routing with Barriers Online" sample with two major ...
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3D multimodal network not traversing modes when elevation is stored in geometry
Are 3D features supported in Multimodal networks? I have built a 3D network that contains 3D features (elevation from geometry) but when I have floors set as different modes (different feature ...
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How do you integrate road networks into VRPTW algorithms?
I'm trying to determine how routing software integrate road networks. Is there a best-practice (or standard) as to what part of the routing solution road networks are inserted specific to VRPTW?
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How to build a website or mobile app with a routing capability?
I want to build a website/mobile app for my school that shows the direction between two points similar to Google's directions API, but not with Google maps. I've got map shapefiles and GPS ...
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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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Should I implement TSP or Dijkstra?
I was asked to create a shortest path algorithm in java to use with OSRM.
I want to create a route between some points (normally more than 3). The first one, will be the starting point and also the ...
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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 implement Landmarks in Network Analyst of ArcGIS 10.1?
I have been trying to implement the landmark functionality into route solving in Network Analyst using ArcGIS 10.1. I have added a point class as turn landmarks (as well as playing around with ...
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Localhost and dns dynamic host OSRM server getJSON
I am having problems trying to use a dnsdynamic address to get a file from Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) server by using getJSON function in javascript.
If I use localhost:5000/ as address of my ...
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Create an optimized point layer derived from a road layer so that the driving distance between each point is x
Consider a classic state-wide or country-wide roadway network. I want to create a point layer, where each point is on the roadway network. This point layer will have each point separated by its ...
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How can I solve “Shortest and Fastest With time” routing issue?
Please see the image below. (If you can't see the image please search "Bangalore to Palakkad" in Google Maps.) I am searching for a route from Bangalore to Palakkad. Google shows two routes. I ...
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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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Reinventing the wheel: Public Transit System
I'm building a public transit service in South Africa, and I initially started the project on PHP and MySQL. I've managed to get far with the simple stack, with:
Routing algorithm in PHP
Data ...
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calculate slope for a road network
I am working on a road network for routing operations using postgis and QGIS.
I am new to both of these tools and need to calculate the slope for each edge (by retrieving the Z value for the start ...
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Are there any intelligent travelling salesmen?
Jokes aside, I have had a routing problem that is almost a travelling salesman problem (TSP):
the starting point is defined
the end point coincides with the starting point
each node has to be ...
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Looking for TSP with Target different from Source
I know the TSP (traveling sales person) in osm2po is beta but it works quite well.
Is there a way to designate a final target location that is different from the initial source location. In other ...
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Improve performances on distance coverage routing - PostgreSQL
I have to create layers of land coverage from one point to anywhere around on a given street network for a given distance (ex: FROM house, DISTANCE 30000m)
An important factor to understand; I need ...
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Is there a way to route different vehicles within OSM2PO?
Is there a way to route different vehicles within OSM2PO? I would like to start the service with a config file and then turn different flags on/off depending on whether the route is for a bike or a ...
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Can I get time & distance from OSM2PO without loading data into PostgreSQL?
Can I get time and distance from OSM2PO routing without loading the data into PostgreSQL? I've seen the answer regarding matching IDs with the DB, but I need to do this using only the OSM2PO service.
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Seeking a GIS for indoor mapping and direction finding
I've seen a few options for indoor GIS platforms such as Google's indoor mapping, implementations of OpenLayers, Open Street Map, and many other plausible solutions. There's even a post on here asking ...
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Cartographic techniques for symbolizing routing data
Some common problems with displaying routes created from street data, such as bus routes, include:
Routes may overlap themselves, such as when a route takes the same road in opposite directions
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tool to find the routing distance between two latitude/longitude points using OSM data
I need a tool to find the distance between two points whose longitude and latitude are given. I am making an application so it will require bulk queries, so i cannot use google maps distance matrix ...
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Are there open standards for storing multi-modal routing graphs?
I'm looking for any open standards (or maybe best practices) for storing multi-modal routing graphs, eg. info for pedestrian, bike, public transport and car routing, etc.
Every data provider seems to ...
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Computing Shortest Distance using Google Map v3 and Openlayers
How to compute shortest route between two points in google map that user selects and provide all routes from source to destination in Transport system?
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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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Using landmarks in routing directions for ArcGIS Network Analyst?
I was wondering if there is a way to use a set of landmarks (in a point class or something) that will be included in the directions output for a Network Analyst route. So if there is a point (or ...
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Is it possible to make a routable graph from Polygons?
I would like to know if it is possible to make a graph with pgrouting 1.05 on polygons. What I mean is that I have to make a graph on a database without roads but with polygon geometry. I would like ...
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Is it possible to use assign_vertex_id() POLYGONs?
I'm trying to use pgrouting in order to create a graphe and I have two questions :
Is it possible to use the function assign_vertex_id() with a POLYGON geometry type? I always have the following ...
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How would I go from a set of points representing routes to a set of map tiles for online consumption? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Web-based user editable routing application
I have a set of routes as a text file with coordinates. For each coordinate I also have whether or not it is an intersection ...
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Web-based user editable routing application
I am totally new to web-based GIS (and open source GIS) and am now working on a web-based travel planner using Postgis and Pgrouting with multicriteria costs. I want the end users (the traveler) to be ...
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How to get routes and download them from OpenLayers?
I am trying to generate a route in openlayers with a start and end points and some points during track.
I read about openroute: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenRouteService#RouteLink
But I ...
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How to Simplify a Line Network Preserving Topology?
I have a Shapefile (consisting of European major roads) with about 250.000 Segments which I have to simplify for pgrouting. But I can't seem to find a way to do that properly.
This is what it looks ...
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How to get route plan with certain distance with pgRouting?
I am working for a project. I have a road network which has been imported in PostgreSQL/PostGIS database. I can query shortest path between two points. I want to get route plan with certain distance. ...
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Open Source Tools for Swept-Path Analysis?
Before I spend time writing something, does anybody know of any open source tools to perform swept-path analysis (preferably suitable to run on Windows and a Python API would be a bonus)? I pretty ...
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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 ...
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how feasible is building my own map server? providing GeoCoding, Directions and Navigation
My need is a heavy use of routing. same as Google's Directions API. I'm looking for a viable alternative to abusing google and paying them too much.
how difficult is it to have my own server for that ...
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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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Looking for best practices for determining turn penalties
Shortest path routing will often return routes with a lot of turns (zigzag shape).
If you want to get routes with fewer turns, you can use turn penalties to make turning more "expensive".
What are ...
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What is the best map provider solution for repetitive routing use?
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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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GIS Application for online map and journey planner
I am planning to implement an online map application with journey planner for a city. I don't have any experience in GIS development but I have a few years of experience in Java development.
So ...
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Network Analyst directions window options
I have created a vehicle route problem with multiple route zones with one depot in each zone. Each zone has a pickup route that delivers to the depot in the zone. Some addresses have special ...
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Mapping and Pedestrian Routing on Android (guidance needed)
I 'm new to this stuff (GIS).
I was assigned a project in which i have to implement for the Android platform:
showing up maps
showing up routes
showing up nearby POIs.
Everything has to be ...
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How to route on a Shapefile?
We use shp.file in our VB6 to run tracking system. Now we want to convert it into the navigation system, which requires doing the route analysis on shp.file. The route is drawn in shp.file
Usually, ...
