Routing along streets
Sometimes, you may want to find the best driving route between two addresses. Street routing has now become so commonplace that we take it for granted. However, if you explore the recipes on geocoding and network analysis in this book, you will begin to see what a complex challenge street routing truly is. To perform routing operations in QGIS, we'll use the QGIS GeoSearch plugin, which is written in Python, so that we can access it from the console.
Getting ready
You will need to install the QGIS Python GeoSearch plugin for this exercise in order to do the routing as well as the QGIS OpenLayers plugin to overlay the result on a Google map, as follows:
- From the QGIS Plugins menu, select Manage and Install Plugins....
- If you have ...
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