[OSGeo Africa] Routing application

[Gavin Fleming]

Hi Wesley

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.

If you need to do it more regularly and with more flexibility the 
pgRouting gives you tremendous power.

GRASS also has some really good routing functionality.

I've used all of the above and from the what you've described they will 
all provide the required information.

Gavin

On 20/11/2013 16:10, Wesley Roberts wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues.
>
> I have a quick question regarding a routing application I am trying to 
> develop.
>
> 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.
>
> 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 (http://workshop.pgrouting.org/index.html).
>
> Does anyone on the list have experience using this software and will 
> it provide the information I require?
>
> Many thanks and kind regards,
>
> Wesley
>
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> Wesley Roberts, PhD.
> Remote Sensing and GIS Specialist
> BioCarbon Partners
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