Compute catchment areas for driving/walking

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PlanWise applies algorithms and geospatial optimisation techniques to existing data on population, road networks and health facilities, so health care planners can better understand the unmet health needs of their constituents and better locate future health facilities.

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Compute catchment areas for driving/walking #16

Open ggiraldez opened 8 years ago

ggiraldez commented 8 years ago

The cost associated to each edge in the topology graph will differ depending on whether the person walks or drives a car to the destination. Add a second cost column to the edges table and compute the catchment areas using this value too.

nditada commented 8 years ago

Walking catchment areas was out of scope as we were assuming walking across terrain and not by roads. Is there a point in computing walking catchment areas through roads? In what case will they not be included in the driving catchment areas? Unless we provide the possibility to switch between one view and the other...