traveltime, traveltime3, geocode3

[Simon Falck]

Dear all,

Its been about 2 years since i used 'geocode3' and 'traveltime3', and it appears they are no longer available.

Since I already have a file with XY-coordinates, I tried to use 'traveltime' (which is similar to traveltime3) to get distance information but failed and was given the following information:


traveltime, start_x(xkoord_startpunkt) start_y(ykoord_startpunkt) end_x(xkoord_mlpunkt) end_y(ykoord_mlpunkt) mode(1) km

file
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&outp...601733,674040&
> dirflg= not found
r(601);

end of do-file



This suggests that also 'traveltime' can no longer be used to get distance information.

Any suggestions of how to get data on XY-coordinates and travel time?

Thanks in advance!

Simon

[Dexter Pante]

Hi,

I'm new to Statlist and to Stata in general. I am working on a similar project and this project involves measuring the travel time (time of travel and distance in Km). I use the same as the previous poster and it also gave me the ff error report:

traveltime, start_x(startong) start_y(startlat) end_x(endlong) end_y(endlat) mode(2) km

file
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&outp...08782768249512
> ,121.011507&dirflg=r not found
r(601);

Any information what is the problem with my code if any?

[Friedrich Huebler]

If you delete the text f=d&output=dragdir& from the URL you will see a result in Google Maps. Compare the two URLs below.

• URL with f=d&output=dragdir&: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&outp...515,-75.155872
• URL without f=d&output=dragdir&: http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=40...515,-75.155872

Perhaps with this information someone can determine where traveltime.ado has to be edited so that it can retrieve results from Google Maps again.

[Stephan Huber]

Dear all,
as you probably noticed, the commands traveltime, traveltime3, and mqtime are obsolet for various reasons (licensing, API, etc.). We developed a new procedure that allows calculation of the travel time with Stata using latitude and longitude information. Please have a look at our paper in which we explain how the command 'osrmtime' can be installed and used.

The paper
'osrmtime: calculate travel time and distance with OpenStreetMap data using the Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)'
can be downloaded here:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...act_id=2691551

The Stata help-file, the ado-files and all the stuff that is needed can be found here:
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/wirtsch...ung/index.html

[Stephan Huber]

btw: it is easy to implement the osrmtime command on a Unix machine. You find an instruction how to build OSRMTIME on a Linux distribution here:
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/wirtsch...ung/index.html

or :

# Installation of OSRMTIME for Users of Linux Distributions

# Step 0: Install (copy) the ado- and help-files (osrmtime.ado, osrmprepare.ado, osrminterface.ado, osrmtime.sthlp) of the osrmtime command in Stata.

# Step 1: Prepare your PC for the OSRM
# Since the dependencies vary across Linux-Distributions, we suggest to look on the always up-to-date instructions online, see:
# https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm.../Building-OSRM

# For a Debian Jessie/Stretch Distribution, for example, you have to do the following:
# (You probably have to adjust this part, see https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm.../Building-OSRM )
sudo apt-get install git g++ cmake libboost-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-thread-dev \
libboost-system-dev libboost-regex-dev libstxxl-dev libxml2-dev libsparsehash-dev libbz2-dev \
zlib1g-dev libzip-dev libgomp1 liblua5.1-0-dev \
libluabind-dev pkg-config libgdal-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-iostreams-dev \
libboost-test-dev libtbb-dev libexpat1-dev

## Step 2: Build OSRM to run on your PC
wget https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm.../v5.3.0.tar.gz
tar -xf v5.3.0.tar.gz
cd osrm-backend-5.3.0
mkdir -p build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build .

mkdir -p ~/osrm
cp -r osrm-datastore osrm-extract osrm-prepare osrm-routed ../profiles/* ~/osrm/
cp -r osrm-datastore osrm-extract osrm-contract osrm-routed ../profiles/* ~/osrm/

## clean up
cd ../..
rm -r build

[Dalila Rib]

I already tried everything you guys said, but I get always an error that I posted here: https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...eltime-geocode

Please if you can help me in calculate traveltime by using lat/long coordinates that'd be great

[Straso Jovanovski]

Hi Dalila Rib, I am not sure if you've already seen this - you can download all the requisite files and read the installation instructions on the GitHub page for the command -osrmtime- here: https://github.com/christophrust/osrmtime

[Straso Jovanovski]

I only wonder if anyone has been able to successfully modify the traveltime.ado file to get the Google Maps API call to work.