Hello Johanne,
Unfortunately I am not familiar enough with GeoServer to answer your questions. I forwarded your email to the support mailing list for GeoServer.
Best,
Rolando
Good day, I've been experimenting on Geoserver to project my Research Routes and would appreciate any assistance you can extend me.
I've got SHP/DBF/TAB data on the entire Philippines with roadnetworks, etc. We've recently started a project researching culture changes covering family-oriented issues and lead a team of Interviewers that go house-to-house gathering census and other related information to our project.
However, we've recently begun mapping our efforts and have come across a pretty difficult task to complete; how to efficiently map routes between house to house using the existing SHP files of the road networks (like what Google does with it's "driving-directions" script that can select the least shortest route between point A-to-Z using the roadnetworks).
I believe this can be achieved with Geoserver, but being very new to the technology, can't really get a hold of how to do it. I've tried some scripts and sample apps but really would like to use Geoserver and my data for the project.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks a lot,
Johanne
email: johanne@anonymised.com
mobile: +639196037509
OpenPlans Help ha scritto:
Hello Johanne,
Unfortunately I am not familiar enough with GeoServer to answer your questions. I forwarded your email to the support mailing list for GeoServer.
Best,
Rolando
Good day, I've been experimenting on Geoserver to project my Research Routes and would appreciate any assistance you can extend me.
I've got SHP/DBF/TAB data on the entire Philippines with roadnetworks, etc. We've recently started a project researching culture changes covering family-oriented issues and lead a team of Interviewers that go house-to-house gathering census and other related information to our project.
However, we've recently begun mapping our efforts and have come across a pretty difficult task to complete; how to efficiently map routes between house to house using the existing SHP files of the road networks (like what Google does with it's "driving-directions" script that can select the least shortest route between point A-to- Z using the roadnetworks).
I believe this can be achieved with Geoserver, but being very new to the technology, can't really get a hold of how to do it. I've tried some scripts and sample apps but really would like to use Geoserver and my data for the project.
No, this cannot be done with GeoServer at the current stage of development. GeoServer loads and filters data, generates map
and other formats out of it, but does not do this kind of spatial
analisys, which would have to be implemented as a WPS service (Web
Processing Service).
Anyways, you can use other solutions to reach your results:
* if you're into java programming, you can have a look at the
GeoTools graph module (not sure it solves the travelling
salesman problem thought)
* load your data into Postgis and try out pgRouting (http://pgrouting.postlbs.org/)
Hope this helps
Cheers
Andrea