[pgrouting-users] Can pgRouting assign source and target id that follows the same direction?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 5/27/2014 1:27 PM, Heinz Chen wrote:
> Hello, guys, I am working with PostgreSQL 9.2 and pgRouting 2.0 to route
> my river network. My question is hard to give it a brief title, so I
> post some details in the forum,
>
> pgRouting assign number of source and target
> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23887283/pgrouting-assign-number-of-source-and-target>
>
> Can I achieve my goal? Or is there any other way to solve this problem?
> Please give me some hint to begin with and feel free to give me any
> suggestion, thanks!



Tolerance defines the minimum distance between two points that will get 
merged into a single point. For example if you have two point and the 
distance between them in datbase units is less than tolerance then they 
will be considered the same point and will get assigned the same number.

given an edge segment in your geometry table before you run 
pgr_createtopology() how do you know the direction of flow? based on the 
direction of digitization? We do not look at this in assigning numbers. 
Numbers are assigned on a first come first assigned basis as we process 
the edges.

To solve your problem, you probably need to write a node renumbering 
algorithm, that works something like this: 1. run pgr_createtopology() 
2. from the network sink (ie: the drain of river network) do a depth 
first search and assign numbers in reverse order (largest from the 
drain, smaller as you move upstream).

I would create new node source and target columns for this. There might 
be a better way to solve this problem but it is not obvious at the moment.

also responded on stackoverflow.

-Steve