[pgrouting-users] Importing for multimodal routes

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 2/9/2012 11:00 AM, Javier Mr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i'm planning to use pgRouting for multimodal routing. I know there is a
> branch of pgRouting for MMPTR, but until i gather more information about
> it i'm trying to avoid it.
>
> What i'm planning is to make several graph, each one for each type of
> vehicle, pedestrians, bikes, etc... and each line of bus, train, subway,
> etc... Then connect this graphs by making edeges from, for example, a
> bus station to the closest pedestrian edege with length of 0. This way i
> would have a big state set for the A* algorithm that should perform
> multimodal planing. Is there a reason why this shoulnd't be done?
>
> I have some doubts about how osm2pgrouting woks. I have seen that OSM is
> capable of storing all this things, but i don't know if osm2pgrouting
> import all that into the DB, does it?.
>
> There are some libraries that work with OSM XML format, any in
> particular that you recomend?

There are a few tools that will load OSM data into a postgres databse 
that pgRouting can use. You might want to read the documenation:

http://www.pgrouting.org/docs/tools.html

-Steve