[postgis-users] Routing with POSTGIS question

[Daniel Kastl]

I haven't heard about shp2pgrouting. I think you need to download the .osm
file from cloudmade servers instead.
Another way to import OSM data is osm2po (osm2po.de). It can handle larger
amount of data and works also on Windows.

Daniel



2010/8/16 bdair2002 <bdair2002 at gmail.com>

>
> Thank you very much, the reason I didn't ask in Pgrouting forum is that I
> wanted another way to calculate route, when I downloaded the maps from
> cloudmade, the roads wasn't in network shape, so I was thinking how do they
> do their route, probably their road network is private.
>
> on another topic, I see that osm2pgrouting works on linux (tested), and I
> prefer to work with shp files since I did all the steps before, can you
> point me to shp2pgrouting, I know it is possible using ARCGIS it self, but
> I
> heard there is a tool called shp2pgrouting, if you can point me to it, it
> would be great.
>
> Sorry I am asking in routing, I should ask this in pgrouting.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Daniel Kastl-3 wrote:
> >
> > For pgrouting you need to have a suitable road network and so you have to
> > use osm2pgrouting for example to split your long OSM roads.
> > If you want to know how cloudmade does, you probably need to ask them.
> But
> > I
> > don't think they take a raw OSM file as it is either.
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > PS: you probably better ask on the pgRouting mailing list if you have
> > pgRouting related questions
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> > 2010/8/16 bdair2002 <bdair2002 at gmail.com>
> >
> >>
> >> Hello Guys,
> >>
> >> I have used pgrouting with postgis, but I have noticed, when I
> downloaded
> >> the maps from openstreemaps, I have noticed they don't use "segments for
> >> the
> >> street" meaning, the street has the same name in each intersection, and
> >> no
> >> start and end for the street.
> >>
> >> My question is there a way to calculate the route when the table do not
> >> have
> >> start/ end point for each edge in the street? or should I convert it
> >> using
> >> pgrouting to make a road network? and how does cloudmade calculate their
> >> routes if they don't have Edge points?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
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