Updated GeoTools Routing Example

I have updated the code example for the GeoTools routing that I had earlier on this blog. You can find the code and example datasets below

https://sites.google.com/site/usefulpracticalgeoblog/home/routecalculationexample.

Route_Example_GeoTools.zip is the latest code example. It contains a folder with the necessary Java classes and two .shp files. One file contains the network dataset for Vienna, Austria (available from http://www.geofabrik.de/data/shapefiles.html), the other contains two destinations for the example code. It requires Geotools 2.7 libraries to run. I have tried to comment it heavily to make it clear. It uses only the distance information to calculate the weights of the edges, but that can easily be changed to incorporate anything else, such as travel time etc. This code example calculates the route from one origin to two destinations (green points on screenshot below).

Here is a screenshot of the output :

Ghostly GTFS Skyscraper

This is not some ghostly skyscraper but a collection of all the space-time paths from the public transport system in Madrid for a single day (z = time of the day). Click on the picture itself for a larger version.  I am working on some code that can eventually calculate the areas of spatio-temporal accessibility (travel time isolines) from point locations using the original (General Transit Feed Specification) GTFS data. This is the first step I guess....

GeoSimple Data Free For All!!!

If anyone is looking for a comprehensive places dataset, then try the open sourced SimpleGeo database dump (see link below)

http://archive.org/details/2011-08-SimpleGeo-CC0-Public-Spaces


From SimpleGeo: "We’re very excited to announce that the SimpleGeo’s CC0 Places data set is now available for download at no cost. If you’d like to get your hands on 21M+ POIs that cover 63 countries, we’re ready to hand that over to you in one file. The file is about 2GB in .ZIP format, and remember, with the CC0 license, this data becomes yours – free and clear – to do whatever you want."


It holds 21 million of places!!!, but with a horrible geo-json format, probably pumped out of a NoSQL database. Therefore, I have created a couple of Java classes that export it to a friendlier CSV file. First run the Clean_Geojson.java class to produce a more easily parsed file, and then run ConvertToCSV.java on the file output by the cleaning process. As the files are huge, this process avoids storing everything in memory (which may cause your JVM to become unhappy with its Heap size).

https://sites.google.com/site/usefulpracticalgeoblog/home/jai

On first look, it is more complete than any other place dataset that I have come across. Even beats OSM here in Zürich, which up until now was perhaps the best open source dataset of places.

NOTE : requires the google JSON java parser, available here http://code.google.com/p/google-gson/downloads/list