[GRASS-user] 3rd Grass Book Data Set

Hi,

Whilst I am waiting for the book to arrive I have started playing a bit with the sample dataset of North Carolina. I am interested in the streets layer (dataset) since basiclaly I am about to do some routing work.

Can someone please be kind enough to explain to me what do these columns represent?

frleft bigint,
toleft bigint,
frright bigint,
toright bigint,
frleft_a bigint,
toleft_a bigint,
frright_a bigint,
toright_a bigint,
one_way character varying(80),
ft_cost numeric,
tf_cost numeric,
shape_len numeric,
length double precision,

Also what is the difference between shape_len and length please?

My main concern are the one_ways and how I should treat them please.

Any help will be extremely appreciated!

Regards

Matthew


Matthew Pulis
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Matthew,

you can find the legend here:
http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php
-> ncexternal/: NC original data set sources, metadata and copies of some
original data
     -> take metadata link
              -> Streets.shp ... streets_wake_legend.csv

Most columns are explained there (as I could reconstruct them from the
original metadata
which you also find linked there (see "Data URL")).

Hope this helps,
Markus

Yancho wrote:

Hi,

Whilst I am waiting for the book to arrive I have started playing a bit
with
the sample dataset of North Carolina. I am interested in the streets layer
(dataset) since basiclaly I am about to do some routing work.

Can someone please be kind enough to explain to me what do these columns
represent?

frleft bigint,
toleft bigint,
frright bigint,
toright bigint,
frleft_a bigint,
toleft_a bigint,
frright_a bigint,
toright_a bigint,
one_way character varying(80),
ft_cost numeric,
tf_cost numeric,
shape_len numeric,
length double precision,

Also what is the difference between shape_len and length please?

My main concern are the one_ways and how I should treat them please.

Any help will be extremely appreciated!

Regards

Matthew

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Thanks alot Markus for your reply.

May I ask some more questions please to better understand the dataset?

FT_COST;Enhance Routing - Travel time in minutes ← does this mean the time in minutes taken from Target Id to Source Id depending on the “speed” column?
TF_COST is Source ID to Target Id right?

And taking the lenght as the cost of going through that node in a routing network, am I right in the following conclusions :

  • I can make another column length with the value of length(the_geom)
  • If street is BI-directional, thus one_way = “BI”, that means that cost = length and reverse_cost = length
  • If street is TF directional, thus one_way = “TF” that means that cost = length and reverse_cost = 1000 + length (made 1000 as a big number so for sure it is not included in the routing)
  • If street is FT directional, thus one_way = “FT” that means that cost = length + 1000 and reverse_cost = length

Now on the dataset is 1000 a huge number? Should I reduce it to a smaller number / increase it to a bigger number / make it negative?

For my routing I am using pgRouting.

Thanks alot for the time you are investing in GRASS :slight_smile:

Regards

Matthew

On 12/10/07, Markus Neteler <neteler@fbk.eu> wrote:

Matthew,

you can find the legend here:
http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php
→ ncexternal/: NC original data set sources, metadata and copies of some
original data
→ take metadata link
→ Streets.shp … streets_wake_legend.csv

Most columns are explained there (as I could reconstruct them from the
original metadata
which you also find linked there (see “Data URL”)).

Hope this helps,
Markus

Yancho wrote:

Hi,

Whilst I am waiting for the book to arrive I have started playing a bit
with
the sample dataset of North Carolina. I am interested in the streets layer
(dataset) since basiclaly I am about to do some routing work.

Can someone please be kind enough to explain to me what do these columns
represent?

frleft bigint,
toleft bigint,
frright bigint,
toright bigint,
frleft_a bigint,
toleft_a bigint,
frright_a bigint,
toright_a bigint,
one_way character varying(80),
ft_cost numeric,
tf_cost numeric,
shape_len numeric,
length double precision,

Also what is the difference between shape_len and length please?

My main concern are the one_ways and how I should treat them please.

Any help will be extremely appreciated!

Regards

Matthew


Matthew Pulis
URL : http://www.solutions-lab.net
MSN : pulis_matthew[@]hotmail.com
ICQ : 145951110
Skype : solutions-lab.net


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