A point must be on the starting and ending nodes of a line only
A routing network of connected edges may contain some routing logic associated with the intersections of roads that are represented as points. These points must, of course, be exactly located at the start or end of a line in order to identify these junctions. Once the junctions are found, various rules can be applied in the attributes to control your routing, for example.
A typical example would be turn restrictions that could be modeled as points:
How to do it...
Our handy utils.py
module located in the trunk
folder helps us out with the mundane tasks of importing a Shapefile and converting ...
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