Hi Chris, Thank you for your response. You got it right that I am using point samples of a vehicle's travel to estimate the most likely path it actually followed along a road network. I have tried using ORSM tools earlier. The path would have been accurate if my co-ordinates were exactly on the road network. However, the data set that I have posses, has the co-ordinates that are slightly away from the road network at several locations. The figure attached with the mail shows the stated problem. The vehicle should have taken a straight path as can be seen that it follows a straight route. However, the two co-ordinates in the paths are drifted away from the road network that leads to an unrealistic movement for the vehicle. Hence, I need some tool that can adjust such drifted co-ordinates ( probably through some technique) as well as draw a path between all such points in a similar fashion as the existing ORSM tool does. And, in case there is no such tool that can do both, can you please suggest some method to overcome the problem? [image: large scale network.PNG] [image: issue with ORSM.PNG] Thanks and Regards, __________________________________________ Advani Chintan Sanjeev Research Scholar, Civil Engineering and Build Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane-4000, Australia. On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 12:15 PM Chris Duncan, GISmatters < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Can you describe a bit more precisely what you wish to do? It sounds > like perhaps you have point samples of a vehicle's travel and you want > to estimate from those the most likely path it actually followed along a > road network? If that's your aim, you need to familiarize yourself with > the challenges and rewards of route-matching, e.g. using OSRM: > > https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fproject-osrm.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7CNEARC-L%40listserv.uconn.edu%7C0d0dba959c71475851eb08d6e8975a99%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C636952134112564177&sdata=CxLYkOW5CUuoY1tnCQMfgeonKi5Qs3yGCP7F4SXAD5U%3D&reserved=0 > > It's been a few years since I worked with this stuff, but I think the > general approach is still reasonably well presented in this paper by > some of the early researchers: > > https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ismll.uni-hildesheim.de%2Flehre%2FsemSpatial-10s%2Fscript%2F6.pdf&data=02%7C01%7CNEARC-L%40listserv.uconn.edu%7C0d0dba959c71475851eb08d6e8975a99%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C636952134112564177&sdata=bo5FgwwYDxR4yMzjzG7YIYeepvHmg%2BliJLAhW7ddox0%3D&reserved=0 > > You don't have to master that material to use OSRM, but it's good to > understand some of the challenges involved in what is a more or less > constrained estimation (educated-guessing) problem whose success depends > on the quality (density, accuracy, and precision) of your point data. > > If you have some other goal in mind, please try to clarify. > > Chris > > On 6/3/19 9:55 PM, Chintan Advani wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I am looking for some tools in ARCGIS/ QGIS that can help me to plot the > > trajectories using the lat/long coordinates for different vehicles. It > > would be great if someone can suggest some inbuilt tools as I am new to > > this these software and need some guidance. I even tried to install a > > map-matching python script based tools from some online source but > > facing issues during execution. I can even share the sample data if that > > can be helpful. > > > > Thank you in anticipation. > > > > __________________________________________ > > Advani Chintan Sanjeev > > Research Scholar, > > Civil Engineering and Build Environment, > > Queensland University of Technology, > > Brisbane-4000, Australia. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This > > list (NEARC-L) is an unmoderated discussion list for all NEARC Users. > > > > If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from this list, you can remove > > yourself by going to https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fs.uconn.edu%2Fnearcsubscribe&data=02%7C01%7CNEARC-L%40listserv.uconn.edu%7C0d0dba959c71475851eb08d6e8975a99%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C636952134112564177&sdata=zmqG5KJl6gDh8tJ1xFeyR54NW1xuXVTTpx1%2BpDUueR4%3D&reserved=0. > > > > -- > > Chris Duncan, Ph.D. > President, GISmatters > [log in to unmask] > > https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gismatters.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7CNEARC-L%40listserv.uconn.edu%7C0d0dba959c71475851eb08d6e8975a99%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C636952134112564177&sdata=ScsDqOX8QshGfMUzYsUsnS2jeUI%2F%2Bhmh%2BhxbUwV8EJo%3D&reserved=0 > > Tel: +1 413.549.2052 > Fax: +1 413.658.0346 > > 1 Tuckerman Ln > Amherst, MA 01002 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list (NEARC-L) is an unmoderated discussion list for all NEARC Users. 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