A WEB BASED 3D CUSTOMIZED ROUTING ENGINE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT USING OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract

This project “W-CROST” designed to serve the needs of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I), is a complete web based application for providing open source routing solutions. The different customized scenarios implemented in this project include the generation of multiple routes, identification of choke points, automatic snapping, exporting route and multiple user logins. Making use of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) and pgRouting Dijkstra’s algorithm, it allows the user to get shortest and fastest route on the basis of distance and time respectively. This application provides the user with driving directions, travelling distance and estimated travel time between two points and encapsulates the capabilities of 2D and 3D route visualization. Designed for Pakistan Army, our project has customized functionality of generating barrier free route and is aimed to work totally offline, so that data security is not compromised.