pgRouting Project

pgRouting extends the PostGIS / PostgreSQL geospatial database to provide geospatial routing functionality.

Advantages of the database routing approach are:

• Data and attributes can be modified by many clients, like Quantum GIS and uDig through JDBC, ODBC, or directly using Pl/pgSQL. The clients can either be PCs or mobile devices.
• Data changes can be reflected instantaneously through the routing engine. There is no need for precalculation.
• The “cost” parameter can be dynamically calculated through SQL and its value can come from multiple fields or tables.

Core Features

pgRouting provides functions for:

• Shortest Path Dijkstra: routing algorithm without heuristics
• Shortest Path A-Star: routing for large datasets (with heuristics)
• Shortest Path Shooting-Star: routing with turn restrictions (with heuristics)
• Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP)
• Driving Distance calculation (Isolines)

Learn more about using pgRouting in your application by reading the documentation.

pgRouting is Open Source

pgRouting is available under the GPLv2 license and is supported by a growing community of individuals, businesses and organizations.