[mapserver-users] optimal path between two points.

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Mon Jan 19 13:54:03 EST 2009


Valeria Muñoz wrote:
> Hi
>  
> I would like to implement the service "optimum path between 2 points," 
> can someone help me to be able to implement it?. The general idea is 
> that a user picks a point A and point B and a display on the map the 
> best route to get from point A to B.

Valeria,

MapServer itself does not do route calculation.  You might find some
useful pointers on this page:

  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenRouter

I think the pgRouting (built on postgres/postgis) is the best bet for
integration with MapServer.

Best regards,
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