[pgrouting-users] Rev 2.0 Update -- Release is almost ready!

[Julien-Samuel Lacroix]

Thank you very much for this extensive review. I'll make sure to look at 
this and even reuse the sample dataset.

Julien

On 13-09-04 06:19 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Hi Julien,
>
> It is wonderful that you are providing an overview of pgRouting at
> FOSS4G2013.
>
> For Rev 2.0, there are major changes. The basic concepts have not
> changed in that you load your data into the database, create a pgRouting
> topology, and issue SQL queries to get results.
>
> The big changes are:
>
> 1. We have refactored all the commands so you have to look at the manual
> to learn it or to upgrade
>
> 2. We refactored the source tree, integrated the docs with the source
> tree and added tests for every command and every example in the manual.
>
> Why did we do this? The product was getting out of hand with incremental
> development, things were broken and inconsistent and in general suffered
> from a lot of entropy over the years. This move was targeted at reviving
> the project and positioning it to move forward with new features.
>
> 3. We added many new features, tools and extensive documentation.
> http://imaptools.com:8081/pgr2-doc/dev/en/doc/index.html
>      Topology Functions
>          pgr_createTopology to create a topology based on the geometry.
>          pgr_createVerticesTable -to reconstruct the vertices table
> based on the source and target information.
>          pgr_analyzeGraph - to analyze the edges and vertices of the
> edge table.
>          pgr_analyzeOneway to analyze directionality of the edges.
>          pgr_nodeNetwork -to create nodes to a not noded edge table.
>      Routing Functions
>          pgr_apspJohnson - All Pairs Shortest Path, Johnson’s Algorithm
>          pgr_apspWarshall - All Pairs Shortest Path, Floyd-Warshall
> Algorithm
>          pgr_astar - Shortest Path A*
>          pgr_bdAstar - Bi-directional A* Shortest Path
>          pgr_bdDijkstra - Bi-directional Dijkstra Shortest Path
>          pgr_dijkstra - Shortest Path Dijkstra
>          pgr_kDijkstra - Mutliple destination Shortest Path Dijkstra
>          pgr_ksp - K-Shortest Path
>          pgr_tsp - Traveling Sales Person
>          pgr_trsp - Turn Restriction Shortest Path (TRSP)
>      With Driving Distance Enabled
>          pgr_drivingDistance - Driving Distance
>          pgr_alphashape - Alpha shape computation
>          pgr_pointsAsPolygon - Polygon around set of points
>      Developers’s Functions
>          pgr_getColumnName - to get the name of the column as is stored
> in the postgres administration tables.
>          pgr_getTableName - to retrieve the name of the table as is
> stored in the postgres administration tables.
>          pgr_isColumnIndexed - to check if the column is indexed.
>          pgr_isColumnInTable - to check only for the existance of the
> column.
>          pgr_pointToId -to insert/get the id of the ineserted point in a
> vertices table.
>          pgr_quote_ident - to quotes the input text to be used as an
> identifier in an SQL statement string.
>          pgr_version - to get pgRouting’s version information.
>          pgr_versionless - to compare two version numbers
>
> Every function has an example and we supply sample data for all the
> examples.
>
> If you want help review this let me know or post it on the list and I'm
> sure you will get some feedback and help.
>
> Thanks,
>    -Steve
>
> On 9/4/2013 4:15 PM, Julien-Samuel Lacroix wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I will present "pgRouting for dummies" at FOSS4G2013. It's a nice and
>> quick tutorial on how to add basic routing to your site. Could you give
>> me a brief summary, for a few slides maybe, of the greatest changes in
>> 2.0. I may have missed the official release announcement. Please forgive
>> me if it's the case.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Julien
>>
>> On 13-09-03 03:24 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I think we have finished up a major cleanup of the documentation,
>>> including creating test files for all the doc examples, and
>>> standardizing the name of arguments in the stored procedures. This was
>>> all made possible by a lot of work by Vicky Vergara. We are now running
>>> 65 test scripts.
>>>
>>> This code is in the vicky-issue178 branch abd will get merged into
>>> develop and tagged as release candidate 2 with the hope that it will
>>> become 2.0.0 release shortly there after.
>>>
>>> You can checkout vicky-issue178 and build that if you want to test it.
>>> We would love to get some feedback after all this work.
>>>
>>> The docs are here:
>>> http://imaptools.com:8081/pgr2-doc/dev/en/doc/index.html
>>>
>>> If you don't have time or expertise to build from source and test it, we
>>> could use proof readers to look over the docs. Email me or create a
>>> ticket for any issues you find.
>>>
>>> pgRouting v2.0 is done except to fix docs, crashes or serious issues
>>> that can not be deferred and of course to make the final release.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>    -Steve
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Pgrouting-users mailing list
>>> Pgrouting-users at lists.osgeo.org
>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/pgrouting-users
>>
>

-- 
Julien-Samuel Lacroix
Mapgears
http://www.mapgears.com/