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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Wesley<br>
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      If it's just a few routes and you need to do the exercise just a
      few times then the Road Graph plugin in QGIS should do the trick.
      <br>
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      If you need to do it more regularly and with more flexibility the
      pgRouting gives you tremendous power.<br>
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      GRASS also has some really good routing functionality. <br>
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      I've used all of the above and from the what you've described they
      will all provide the required information. <br>
      <br>
      Gavin<br>
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      On 20/11/2013 16:10, Wesley Roberts wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues.</p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">I have a quick question regarding a routing
          application I am trying to develop. </p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">I would like to calculate travel time
          between a central location and a number of point locations
          (Permanent Monitoring Plots) along a sparse road network. The
          points do not occur on the roads. My travel time calculation
          is therefore made up of travel along roads (by car) and
          walking from the road to the point of interest. I can
          calculate distance from each point to the nearest road fairly
          easily, however, calculating the distance from each nearest
          point to a central location appears to a be a little more
          difficult. </p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">Is this a job for pgRouting? I have found
          the following workshop and am happy to work through it
          provided the application can undertake the tasks I require (<a
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            href="http://workshop.pgrouting.org/index.html">http://workshop.pgrouting.org/index.html</a>).</p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone on the list have experience
          using this software and will it provide the information I
          require? </p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks and kind regards,</p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Wesley</p>
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            <span style="background:white">Wesley Roberts, PhD.</span><br>
            <span style="background:white">Remote Sensing and GIS
              Specialist</span><br>
            <span style="background:white">BioCarbon Partners</span><br>
            <span style="background:white">Email: <a
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                href="mailto:wes@biocarbonpartners.com">wes@biocarbonpartners.com</a></span><br>
            <span style="background:white">Tel +27 83 535 5646 (South
              Africa)</span></span><span
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            <span style="background:white"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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