[pgrouting-dev] Re: PostGIS and pgRouting

[Jordan Anderson]

I think this is great, too. I'd be happy to contribute to the
documentation effort. Ride the City has generated about one million
routes using pgRouting over the past couple of years so I'm happy to
contribute some interesting examples of how pgRouting is used in
practice.

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:00 PM,
<pgrouting-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> On 9/10/2010 10:17 AM, Anton Patrushev wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> Today we have very interesting discussion with PostGIS team at the
>> FOSS4G 2010 Codesprint.
>> It suddenly happened that PostGIS wants to make pgRouting its part
>> somewhere closer to 2.1 release next year.
>
> Wow, I think this would be great! I would definitely be + 1 on this.
>
>> It requires some work from both sides of course (mostly from our
>> side), but the goal is feasible in this time I think.
>> It is mostly cleaning up the code and (oh no!) documentation, getting
>> rid of some dependencies (I am also dying to remove CGAL), blending
>
> What is CGAL used for? the Traveling Salesman solutions?
>
>> into their building procedure and infrastructure. They are going to
>> migrate to cmake (the thing we already have) and are waiting for some
>> help from our side.
>>
>> I think it is win-win situation - PostGIS gets cool new feature while
>> pgRouting hopefully gets bigger user and I hope developer base,
>> becomes a part of fantastic big project and sneaks to OSGeo for free
>> :-)
>>
>> I don't put this for voting yet and keep from discussing first steps,
>> because this movement is still to be approved by PostGIS PSC, but I
>> wanted share the exciting news and I'm dying to know your opinion.
>
> Thanks! This is indeed exciting news and very much a win-win.
>
> -Steve
>
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> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:59:01 +0200
> From: Daniel Kastl <daniel at georepublic.de>
> Subject: Re: [pgrouting-dev] PostGIS and pgRouting
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> 2010/9/13 Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>
>
>> On 9/10/2010 10:17 AM, Anton Patrushev wrote:
>>
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> Today we have very interesting discussion with PostGIS team at the
>>> FOSS4G 2010 Codesprint.
>>> It suddenly happened that PostGIS wants to make pgRouting its part
>>> somewhere closer to 2.1 release next year.
>>>
>>
>> Wow, I think this would be great! I would definitely be + 1 on this.
>
>
> I think so, too.
>
>
>
>>
>>
>>  It requires some work from both sides of course (mostly from our
>>> side), but the goal is feasible in this time I think.
>>> It is mostly cleaning up the code and (oh no!) documentation, getting
>>> rid of some dependencies (I am also dying to remove CGAL), blending
>>>
>>
>> What is CGAL used for? the Traveling Salesman solutions?
>
>
> It's used for the polygon of the driving distance calculation. Without it
> you only got a lot of points back, which might be also a useful result for
> further processing.
>
>  Daniel
>
>
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