Web-based Routing: An Introduction to pgRouting with OpenLayers?

Presenters:

• Claude Philipona (Camptocamp SA)
• Daniel Kastl (Orkney, Inc.)

Further authors:

• Frédéric Junod (Camptocamp SA)
• Anton Patrushev (Orkney, Inc.)

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
• Design basic map layers
• Create a Vector layer and draw a polygon on it
• “set start/end point” tool
• Customize the tools
• Ask for a route
• Show the routing result on the map

Routing PHP script with XML output

• PHP page template (basics)
• Select closest edge
• Routing query
• XML output