Web-based Routing: An Introduction to pgRouting with OpenLayers

Important

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Presenters

• Claude Philipona (Camptocamp SA)
• Daniel Kastl (Georepublic UG and Georepublic Japan)

Further authors

• Frédéric Junod (Camptocamp SA)
• Anton Patrushev (Georepublic UG and Georepublic Japan)

Contents

• Introduction
  • pgRouting requirements
  • Workplace access
  • Get the source
• PostgreSQL / pgRouting
  • Create a routing database
  • Load routing data
  • Prepare routing table for Dijkstra
  • Prepare routing table for A-Star
  • Prepare routing table for Shooting-Star
• OpenLayers routing map
  • Starting page (00.index.html)
  • Design basic map layers (01.index.html)
  • Create a Vector layer and draw a polygon on it (02.index.html)
  • “set start/end point” tool (03.index.html)
  • Customize the tools (04.index.html)
  • Ask for a route (05.index.html)
  • Show the routing result on the map (06.index.html)
• Routing PHP script with XML output
  • PHP page template (basics)
  • Select closest edge
  • Routing Query
  • XML output

Workshop Downloads

• foss4g_w12.tar.gz
• 20071004_tutorial.zip