sonnywibawaadi wrote: > Hi All, > > I am Sonny Adi and a new member for MITAB. I need to join this because > I want to learn how to read MapInfo product's files in my research. > > I have a question, if any of you can answer it then it would be great. > I am sorry if my question if outside from the topic in this group. > I want to create an application to read MapInfo file and I need to find > the best route (shortest path) from one address to another address. > Is that something that it can be done using MITAB? Or is that not > related at all with MITAB? Do you have any info where I can get the > data? >
Well, I guess your question is only indirectly related to MITAB: the lib can be used to read MapInfo files and use them for routing, but it does not provide any routing capabilities. If you do not want to reinvent the wheel and are open to using existing routing solutions, then you could have a look at the following options: 1- pgRouting: http://pgrouting.postlbs.org/ pgRouting is an open source routing extension for postgreSQL/postGIS. Last time I checked it required a bit of work to figure how things work, but if you have a road network in MapInfo TAB format then you should be able to load it into PostGIS using the ogr2ogr utility at http://gdal.org/ogr/ (which uses MITAB internally) and then configure and use your data with pgRouting. 2- Routeware: http://routeware.dk/rwnet/rwnet.php Routeware has an excellent routing product that will work directly with MapInfo files. The full product is not free, but I just noticed on the website that there is a free version with limited functionality if you want to give it a try. Daniel -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mitab/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mitab/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
