Routing consists of finding optimal paths along geographic networks such as roads or trail systems.

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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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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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Russian GIS Data

Which companies are the best suppliers of vector, geocoding, imagery, and POI data in Russia? Which companies provide a complete service (which includes the above data types and also routing, ...
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Need to get the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for WPF Routing example to work with my gpk and mpk

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 routing ...
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How to generate all possible routes between two points?

I have a network dataset in ArcGIS and I need to generate all possible (not only the shortest one) routes between two given points (A, B). Is it possible to do it with the Network Analyst? Or with any ...
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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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Will osm2po or other tools simplify links between nodes?

To make this clearer, I'm going to use the the word "section" to mean a length of road between two junctions/intersections. I think it is true that osm2po (under default user options) creates a graph ...
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Displaying Highrise Delivery Routes

I have a geocoded address table for High Rise buildings in New York. If i'm trying to map delivery routes to a number of these locations, what would be the best and most clear way to display the ...
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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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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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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 convert a track of points into walking directions?

Imagine you have a list of points (latitude + longitude) you have previously recorded with a GPS receiver. Now, you need to convert it to a textual representation of the route you followed. Example: ...
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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 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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How to specify attributes for network dataset?

Using ArcGIS 9.3 to try and create some routes with network analyst... currently following this tutorial: Network analyst tutorial for 9.3 I have a street dataset from NYS clearinghouse. I can't seem ...
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How to get route between Two lat/long using ArcGis Map in Android?

What I'm trying to do is have two edit boxes for source and destination. Based on those two locations I need to draw the route on an ArcGIS map in Android. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly ...
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Finding intermediate points and speed over a segment

I have a dataset which is in the form of ( Time , Car ID, Speed at that moment, Lat,Long) and I need to do some machine learning on the data to answer the following questions : Best route from ...
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Get Multiple Shortest Path using PgRouting in One Query

I am trying to get multiple shortest path using A* Algorithm available in PgRouting. I referred Solution given by UnderDark ( Link of the Stakoverflow Post ) . But it is not giving me proper Output. ...
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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 to set order of operations for Field Calculation in Network Analyst Evaluator Dialogue?

I desire to have a ratio calculated each time I create a new route. To get this ratio, I created and populated a field that multiplied the length of each segment by a designated number from 1-5, where ...
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Finding optimal network with python and network analyst in arcgis 10.0

Hello GIS StackExchange, I'd like to know if there's any way to find the shortest distance across the diagonals of a polygon. I am creating a network analyst solution to determine the most cost ...
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3D Barriers, ArcGIS Network Analyst

I am trying to implement 3D barriers from a feature class into a network using a model, but I can't seem to get the resulting barrier to appear on the proper three dimensional plane. The feature class ...
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Which map provider offers information about restriction maneuvers for Venezuela?

I need to add turn restriction to my application. However, my map provider (Navteq) don't have this one for Venezuela and other countries.What other map provider could have this information?
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How to find dijkstra's shortest path in OpenLayers [duplicate]

I have just hard coded the routes and calculating distance for each node from the source node, but I could not find the shortest path . I am just trying to move or find the nodes of a LineString by ...
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How to add geocoder and routing options in geoexplorer in Opengeo suite 3.0.1?

I am using Opengeo suite 3.0.1 and was wanted to know if there is a way to add a geocoding and routing options using osm. Basically, I am trying to add text boxes (one for start point and one for end ...
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CloudMade Routing with Leaflet: route is not displayed

I am trying to consume the CloudMade routing API using Leaflet. So far, I have managed to pass points and receive a response, and parse that response into an array of points. The array of points is ...
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Network Analyst not working

I have network analyst installed as an extension in my arcGIS 9.3, but it just does not work!!! when I go to ArcCatalog, the option of new network data set also does not appear... :( I have to do this ...
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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 ...
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Looking for examples of pedestrian-specific routing engines

Most of the applications providing pedestrian routing I see are sufficient for many needs but not optimal: you cannot cross open spaces like town squares, routing is in the middle of the street etc. ...
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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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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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ST_intersects and shortest_path to optimize routing in respect to (de-)acceleration

Is there a way to consider a more complex cost field in the PG_Routing algorithm? I am currently trying to get more realistic routing costs. I have a map based on the German ATKIS standard with road ...
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Are there newer routing algorithms (than Dijkstra, A*) in GIS databases?

There are works like Reach for A* from Microsoft researchers and Highway Hierarchies by Sanders and Schtolz (if I spell the name correctly) from Karlsruhe Uni. Both of them reduce the calculations ...
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How to create a routable road network from Ordnance Survey data?

I've been following the "Beginners Guide to pgRouting" in an attempt to create an in-house application that provides drive-time isochrones. I have a server, postgreSQL and PostGIS and pgRouting - no ...
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Is it possible to get the points used for the convex hull in osm2po?

I have a non-convex hull algorithm that I want to use for an app. With OSM2PO, it's possible to get a convexHull, but is there a way to get the points before the hull is constructed? More, it would ...
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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 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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Polygon radius route drawing in gmap

I am able to draw polygon well on google map. The issue now is that we need to draw box polygon on road with radius from the center of the road to left and right say 50 meters. What is the best ...
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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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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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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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Incorporating Length of Route Value into Cost Evaluator Function (ArcGIS Network Analyst)?

A friend and I (who more frequently than I posts on this board) are creating a walking network and we have run in to a snag. We would like to attribute a cost evaluator to our network dataset using a ...
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How to calculate heuristic shooting star algorithm?

I have a problem with the shooting star algorithm. It's my final project and I need some help. My question is how can I calculate the heuristic shooting star algorithm? I can use the pgrouting ...
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How to create a routing application with ArcGIS Server?

I have the task to find out what is necessary to build a routing application using ArcGIS Server. I am not a GIS beginner, but have had no experience with ArcGIS Server. As this project is at the ...
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Transit Routing using pgrouting as core routing engine?

i'm a student and i'm working on a project. the aim is given two sets of coordinates(origin & destination) route through the map to determine the optimum path using public transportation and of ...
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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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How to work with shortest_path_shooting_star() in pgRouting?

It's been a while we are using PostGIS to store our Geometry information in our Postgres database. We have developed vertex-to-vertex routing ourselves using iGraph library. Yesterday I read about ...
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Route analysis in R based on the OSM transport network: possible?

I'm analysing the likely paths taken by commuters on their way to work, based on Census flow data, job density distributions and the transport network. At the moment I'm using pgRouting and the ...
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How to calculate most efficient route passing through all the houses in the world?

I'm new to GIS. I need some help in determining the best or most efficient route, using a flying sleigh, through all the houses in the world. One of my coworkers told me that this site would be the ...

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