Hello List,

For a couple of months we have been looking into a nasty little problem. We
have a road network (with dangles) on which we calculate for firetrucks
which truck will arrive first on a roadsegment in case of an emergency. This
results in the road network with as an attribute "First truck=x". When we
create a thematic map from this, it looks very nice suggesting certain areas
to belong to truck x when shown as a line thematic.

(picture 1: http://www.avd-ict.nl/images/firetrucks1.jpg)

For all the roadsegments we have created point objects for the centroids and
created voronois. When we color these thematic based upon the same
parameters, we get "unwanted" results. Islands, strange shapes, strange
edges and so on 

(picture 2: http://www.avd-ict.nl/images/firetrucks2.jpg)

I am looking for a mathematical expert that can tell me what routines we
should use to create smooth and good looking polygons from the line
thematic. It doesn't need to be an out of the box MapInfo solution, we have
capable programmers, but we need a good method.
This doesn't have to be "for free", we are willing to discuss a fee for
helping us to solve this problem.

Any suggestions regarding voronois are unwanted. Because everybody must
agree these voronois are ugly when it comes to handling a road network...

Please get in touch when you feel you might know the road to a solution!

Kind regards,

Milo van der Linden 
AVD-ICT GIS Consultant
*       Hoogbloklandseweg 24
*       4205 NE  Gorinchem
Tel. +31 183 50 81 50
Fax. +31 183 50 81 60
Mob. +31 629 54 06 96


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