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

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Alternatives to pgRouting

I was wondering if there are any alternatives to pgRouting tools. Thinking about it for a bit, I think the only alternative is to use R or RPY to do the analysis. Basically I'm trying to solve ...
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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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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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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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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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building opentripplaner gtfs.zip [closed]

I am building a journey planner app using opentripplanner. i have followed their two minutes tutorial in which we just run webapp which uses pre build graph.obj file, it works fine. But in next five ...
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Help with opentripplanner

I have started working with opentripplanner (i am developing a journey planner app). I am following the two & five minute tutorial given on opentripplanner website. but while starting server using ...
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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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Help making the DARP example run

I've compiled and installed DARP branch. Is there any data example to test it?. I've used some data based on document instructions http://www.pgrouting.org/docs/1.x/darp.html but no results return. ...
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How to route over (partial) edges in pgrouting?

I have made a route planning system (based on shortest path using A*) like the Google directions service using pgrouting and google maps. It includes clicking on the map to generate waypoints, ...
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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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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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How to get multiple shortest paths with PgRouting in one query?

I want to run shortest path algorithm on multiple source&target pairs at once and get a result as a table and process it then. How do I do this? This query does not work: SELECT a.source, ...
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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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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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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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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 ...