Shortest route solution

[Janeks Kamerovskis]

What if the optimal route solution is done in php with mapscript?
(in cases when route shape file are not too big ( ~ 5 mb?) )

Could somebody tried something similar?

brgds
Janeks

> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List
> [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU]On Behalf Of Stephen Woodbridge
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 4:29 PM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Shortest route solution
>
>
> This has been discussed in the archives search for "router"
>
> In general, this should not be a mapserver function because, the data
> (or organization of the data) required is not what mapserver needs or
> vica versa. The best (better?) way to do this is to create a separate
> application the computes the route and returns an xml document or a
> couple of files with a unique name. Then use mapscript to integrate the
> results with a map.
>
> I have done this and have a demo at http://imaptools.com/demos1/?tab=2
> The router is C code and creates a filename.shp and filename.txt as
> results. the PHP code then takes the shapefile and adds it to a layer
> already in the mapfile and the driving directions go into the
> filename.txt and they are read and displayed under the make.
>
> The biggest issue is that you need data that is good for routing and in
> most cases that means commercial data which is very expensive.
>
> This worked for me, hope it helps you get started.
>
> -Steve W.
>
> Gambin Dejan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Did anybody implement the shortest route algorithm to mapserver and what
> > are the experiences/suggestions? I would like to be able to find a
> > shortest route between two points on my MapServer map and highlight it
> > somehow. I found a conference document about grass server that should be
> > able to do so using php extension on client side (the client can be
> > mapserver). Does it exist or is just in future plan?
> >
> > I would appreciate any suggestions on this field
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > dejan
> >