Hi,
Can geoserver be used for routing applications. e.g.
can I make a request (wfs) for directions to go for
one location to another. (possibly displaying the
shortest path). Does geoserver support this
functionality ? if not are they plans to support this
in the near future ?
Thanks
Roman
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Hi Roman,
Unfortunately not 
If a web processing service (WPS) implementation every makes it to GeoServer i would love to see something like this... but until then...
-Justin
Roman Isitua wrote:
Hi,
Can geoserver be used for routing applications. e.g.
can I make a request (wfs) for directions to go for
one location to another. (possibly displaying the
shortest path). Does geoserver support this
functionality ? if not are they plans to support this
in the near future ?
Thanks
Roman
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Roman Isitua ha scritto:
Hi,
Can geoserver be used for routing applications. e.g.
can I make a request (wfs) for directions to go for
one location to another. (possibly displaying the
shortest path). Does geoserver support this
functionality ? if not are they plans to support this
in the near future ?
Roman,
we don't. As Justin stated, WFS is not the proper protocol
either, since it's designed for pure data serving, computation
is managed by WPS.
If you want to do routing, I suggest you look for an alternative
solution, such as pgRouting (http://pgrouting.postlbs.org/),
drive pgRouting from your custom application, register on the
fly the generated layers on GeoServer and have it serve them
by WMS or WFS. That will require quite some custom programming
thought.
Hope this makes sense.
Cheers
Andrea
Hi,
I just checked out pgrouting and it looks like it will
meet my need. Just need more clarification on what you
said earlier about "drive pgRouting from your custom
application, register on the fly the generated layers
on GeoServer and have it serve them by WMS or WFS".
how do you register on fly a generated layer to
geoserver ?
--- Andrea Aime <aaime@anonymised.com> wrote:
Roman Isitua ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> Can geoserver be used for routing applications.
e.g.
> can I make a request (wfs) for directions to go
for
> one location to another. (possibly displaying the
> shortest path). Does geoserver support this
> functionality ? if not are they plans to support
this
> in the near future ?
Roman,
we don't. As Justin stated, WFS is not the proper
protocol
either, since it's designed for pure data serving,
computation
is managed by WPS.
If you want to do routing, I suggest you look for an
alternative
solution, such as pgRouting
(http://pgrouting.postlbs.org/),
drive pgRouting from your custom application,
register on the
fly the generated layers on GeoServer and have it
serve them
by WMS or WFS. That will require quite some custom
programming
thought.
Hope this makes sense.
Cheers
Andrea
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Roman Isitua ha scritto:
Hi,
I just checked out pgrouting and it looks like it will
meet my need. Just need more clarification on what you
said earlier about "drive pgRouting from your custom
application, register on the fly the generated layers
on GeoServer and have it serve them by WMS or WFS".
how do you register on fly a generated layer to
geoserver ?
In a rather clumsy way at the moment, my mimicking
a user wandering on the web interface.
Here is some examples:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDOC/Alternative+for+reloading+the+Geoserver+catalog
We'll hope to have a real API to do so in the future,
but for the moment there has been only talks, no
real plan.
Cheers
Andrea