<div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_5392" dir="ltr">I would like to create a simple simulation of a trip using OSRM.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_5391" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_5390" dir="ltr">I believe the steps would be as follows (my questions are in parenthesis below)<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_5389" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_5388" dir="ltr">a. Load OSM map of a city into OSRM</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_5397" dir="ltr">b. Choose a random begin, end location that falls within the city lat/long (how to find lat/long limits of the loaded map?)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_5400" dir="ltr">c. Compute the distance (in time) between start, end using OSRM</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_5401" dir="ltr">d. Also compute a path between start, end using OSRM (are the node vertices mentioned in route the same as in the OSM map?)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_5402" dir="ltr">e. The difficult part: <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_5403" dir="ltr"> -- start the simulation by displaying the map along with position marker (Leaflet?)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_5404" dir="ltr"> -- As time progresses, determine the location along the OSRM route computed above (how can this be done?)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_5406" dir="ltr"> and adjust the position marker.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_6764" dir="ltr"> <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_6054" dir="ltr">An OSRM route looks like this:</div><pre id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_6055" style="" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_6767" style="" class=""><span style="" class="">"</span>route_instructions<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_6766" style="" class="">"</span></span>: [
[
<span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">"</span>10<span style="" class="">"</span></span>, <-------------------- what is this id and how to convert it to lat/long
<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_6765" style="" class=""><span style="" class="">"</span>Schulstraße<span style="" class="">"</span></span>,
<span style="" class="">126</span>,
<span style="" class="">0</span>,
<span style="" class="">18</span>,
<span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">"</span>126m<span style="" class="">"</span></span>,
<span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">"</span>SE<span style="" class="">"</span></span>,
<span style="" class="">116</span>
],
[
<span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">"</span>7<span style="" class="">"</span></span>, <---------------- how to find elapsed time to this point from previous one
<span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">"</span>Am Rahmtor<span style="" class="">"</span></span>,
<span style="" class="">57</span>,
<span style="" class="">2</span>,
<span style="" class="">11</span>,
<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_7592" style="" class=""><span style="" class="">"</span>57m<span style="" class="">"</span></span>,
<span style="" class=""><span style="" class="">"</span>NE<span style="" class="">"</span></span>,
<span style="" class="">38</span>
]<br><br>Given a start and end lat/long, a network distance (time) can be obtained as follows:<br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_6763" style="" class=""><span style="" class="">"</span>distance_table<span style="" class="">"</span></span>: [
[
<span style="" class="">0</span>,
<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_6761" style="" class="">26084</span>
],
[
<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_6762" style="" class="">26084</span>,
<span style="" class="">0</span>
]<br><br>This would be useful if the route way-points above could be converted into time units.<br></pre><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_5409" dir="ltr">Would appreciate any help with the above questions,<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417617698788_5411" dir="ltr">Sriram<br></div></div>