Hi Daniel,
Thank you for your information, your knowledge is superb. I didn't know that there are products which do the same and I don't want to reinvent the wheel. I will have a look on those products then. Regards, 2008/2/19, Daniel Morissette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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/ > > -- Sonny Wibawa Adi
