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Open source software to calculate travel distances generic@arigatoo.net 03-06-2007
Posted by generic@arigatoo.net on March 6, 2007, 4:06 pm
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I would like to display highway travel times between cities on an
intranet application, with an option to display the full driving
directions. Is there an open-source tool that is available for
performing this type of calculation?

I don't think this type of capability is available through the
GoogleMaps API, although I would love to be corrected.


Posted by ujaval@gmail.com on March 13, 2007, 5:48 am
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wrote:
> I would like to display highway travel times between cities on an
> intranet application, with an option to display the full driving
> directions. Is there an open-source tool that is available for
> performing this type of calculation?
>
> I don't think this type of capability is available through the
> GoogleMaps API, although I would love to be corrected.

There are many open source toolkits that will allow you to compute the
driving directions. But the catch is that, you'll need the source
data. None of the freely available datasets is comprehensive enough to
allow driving directions. If you get access to data, you can try GIS
toolkit to write your application. http://gistoolkit.sourceforge.net/
.

-Ujaval
http://gisindia.blogspot.com


Posted by Uffe Kousgaard on March 13, 2007, 6:52 am
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> There are many open source toolkits that will allow you to compute the
> driving directions.

Please mention one.

> But the catch is that, you'll need the source
> data. None of the freely available datasets is comprehensive enough to
> allow driving directions. If you get access to data, you can try GIS
> toolkit to write your application. http://gistoolkit.sourceforge.net/

This one has no functionality for driving directions. It is a GIS viewer
kind of application. It is almost like saying shapelib will do driving
directions.

Regards
Uffe Kousgaard




Posted by user923005 on April 12, 2007, 7:52 pm
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wrote:
> I would like to display highway travel times between cities on an
> intranet application, with an option to display the full driving
> directions. Is there an open-source tool that is available for
> performing this type of calculation?
>
> I don't think this type of capability is available through the
> GoogleMaps API, although I would love to be corrected.

To perform the driving directions calculation, you must solve the
transportation problem.

So you need two things to perform the calculation:
1. A database of roads with distances between points
2. A TSP solver

After you have solved the transportation problem, then you need to
display the solution.

These things may be useful:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/myway/
http://jopt-net-vehicle-routing-software-library.dna.qarchive.org/



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