Routino : Configuration

XML Configuration Files

New in version 1.4 of Routino is the use of configuration files to allow more information to be provided to the programs at run-time. The configuration files that are used are:

Tagging transformation rules for the planetsplitter program.
Routing profiles for the router program.
Output translations for the router program.

In keeping with the nature of the input and output files the configuration files are also XML files. Each of the files uses a custom defined XML schema and an XSD file is provided for each of them.

Tag Transformation Rules

The default name of the tagging transformation rules XML configuration file is tagging.xml in the same directory as the generated database files. Other filenames can be specified on the command line using the --tagging option. When processing the input it is possible to have a different set of tagging rules for each file; for example different rules for different countries.

The tagging rules allow modifying the highway tags in the source file so that the routing can be performed on a simpler set of tags. This removes the special case tagging rules from the source code into the configuration file where they can be easily modified. Part of the provided tagging.xml file showing the rules for motorway_link and motorway highway types.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<routino-tagging>

  <way>

    <if k="highway" v="motorway_link">
      <set v="motorway"/>
    </if>

    <if k="highway" v="motorway">
      <output k="highway"/>

      <output k="motorbike"  v="yes"/>
      <output k="motorcar"   v="yes"/>
      <output k="goods"      v="yes"/>
      <output k="hgv"        v="yes"/>
      <output k="psv"        v="yes"/>

      <output k="paved"      v="yes"/>
      <output k="multilane"  v="yes"/>
      <output k="oneway"     v="yes"/>
    </if>
...
  <way>

</routino-tagging>

The rules all have the same format; an if element for matching the input and some set or output elements to either change the input tags or create an output tag. The k and v attributes have the same meaning as the attributes with the same names in the OSM XML file - the tag key and tag value.

An if rule that has both k and v specified is only applied if a tag exists in the input that matches both. An if rule that has only the k attribute is applied if a tag with that key exists and an if rule that has only the v attribute is applied to all tags with that value.

For the set and output elements the tag that is created in the input or output tag set uses the k and v attributes specified. If one or both are not specified then the original ones are used.

Routing Profiles

The default name of the routing profiles XML configuration file is profiles.xml in the same directory as the database files. Other filenames can be specified on the command line using the --tagging option.

The purpose of this configuration file is to allow easy modification of the routing parameters so that they do not all need to be specified on the command line. In versions of Routino before version 1.4 the default routing parameters (preferred highways, preferred speeds etc) were contained in the source code, now they are in a configuration file. When calculating a route the --profile option selects the named profile from the configuration file.

Part of the provided profiles.xml file showing the parameters for transport on foot is shown below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<routino-profiles>

  <profile name="foot" transport="foot">
    <speeds>
...
      <speed highway="cycleway"      kph="4" />
      <speed highway="path"          kph="4" />
      <speed highway="steps"         kph="4" />
    </speeds>
    <preferences>
...
      <preference highway="cycleway"      percent="95" />
      <preference highway="path"          percent="100" />
      <preference highway="steps"         percent="80" />
    </preferences>
    <properties>
      <property type="paved"        percent="50" />
      <property type="multilane"    percent="25" />
      <property type="bridge"       percent="50" />
      <property type="tunnel"       percent="50" />
      <property type="footroute"    percent="55" />
      <property type="bicycleroute" percent="55" />
    </properties>
    <restrictions>
      <oneway obey="0" /> 
      <weight limit="0.0" />
      <height limit="0.0" />
      <width  limit="0.0" />
      <length limit="0.0" />
    </restrictions>
  </profile>
  <profile name="horse" transport="horse">
...
  </profile>
...
</routino-profiles>

Output Translations

The default name of the output translations XML configuration file is translations.xml in the same directory as the database files. Other filenames can be specified on the command line using the --translations option.

The generated HTML and GPX output files (described in the next section) are created using the fragments of text that are defined in this file. Additional languages can be added to the file and are selected using the --language option to the router. If no language is specified the first one in the file is used.

Part of the provided translations.xml file showing some of the English language (en) translations is shown below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<routino-translations>

  <language lang="en">
...
    <turn direction="-4" string="Very sharp left" />
    <turn direction="-3" string="Sharp left" />
    <turn direction="-2" string="Left" />
...
    <heading direction="-4" string="South" />
    <heading direction="-3" string="South-West" />
    <heading direction="-2" string="West" />
...
    <route type="shortest" string="Shortest" />
    <route type="quickest" string="Quickest" />
    <output-html>
...
    </output-html>
    <output-gpx>
...
    </output-gpx>
  </language>
</routino-translations>