Route Planning Using QGIS and Online Routing API Services
Route planning is one activity that may be almost everyone in this world doing in every day basis. Either plan a trip to certain tourism destination or simply looking for a route to nearest mart, it is a part of daily activities. Take Google Maps routing features as an example. It is being used by many people to plan and guide the trip activities. It is so easy to use even non GIS person can do route analysis without needed for understanding about Geography and GIS.
Plan a trip route is something, but flexibility to use the created route is another matter. You can only uses Google Maps Routing services inside a google maps apps or web. This situation is also similar with other online trip planner tools. Now what if we needs to uses the created route to another apps or devices, may be you want to put the route generated in Google Maps into your GPS handheld, so you can directly navigate your route using your own preferred device. This is also something that easily you can do. With the helps of QGIS as open source and free to use GIS Software, you can do the things I explained above. I already prepared a video tutorial about how to do it that you can check and watch it below.
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