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adding road distance to next village #20

Open JakobMiksch opened 7 years ago

JakobMiksch commented 7 years ago

It would be interesting to know how far (road network distance, not linear distance) each lake is away from the next village.

Therefore we could use GraphHopper. It is a routing library/program based on Java. It uses natively OpenStreetMap data. It is comparably simple to run an own routing server of whole Scandinavia with it. The n we could use this skript for integrating it to the Database.

Using OpenStreetMap data should be fine for us, because roads are usually mapped very well.

Then we would have to define "village" or "human population". We need do decide, if we take each single building or if we take settlement of a minimum size ...

JakobMiksch commented 7 years ago

related: #47

ninsbl commented 7 years ago

We should compute more involved distance measures later if required, depending on how simple measures perform...