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FME for defining census districts, routes

  • December 10, 2019
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lazarlubomir
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Hello FME´ers,

please, there is one big challenge to generate walking route for postman in census.

What I have:

- points (households) - one point can represent one or more households, accorging to attribute value

- lines (streets)

I need to generate routes for postman that contain visiting of 50 households per day, every household must be visited only once. Every route should be unique.

Please, is there any idea, how to figure this challenge?

Thank You so much!

Lubo

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danilo_fme
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  • December 11, 2019

Hi @lazarlubomir

A few years ago I had this challenge for my customer.

For create a route - We used the FME to create a Workspace that red a excel files ( with all address ) and send request to Google API for route ( transformer HttpCaller ).

The answer was a excel file with differents routes.

 

Thanks,

Danilo


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  • December 12, 2019

Hi @lazarlubomir

A few years ago I had this challenge for my customer.

For create a route - We used the FME to create a Workspace that red a excel files ( with all address ) and send request to Google API for route ( transformer HttpCaller ).

The answer was a excel file with differents routes.

 

Thanks,

Danilo

Hello @danilo_fme,

thats not a bad idea! But, my datasets and goals are little bit different - I need to compute routes for postman - one city area should be divided into many routes which are possible to going through in one day.

Finally, I solved this by PointCloud transfomers (households) and the ShortestPathFinder and the result is perfect :-)

Thanks

Lubo