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Data set requirements

Route creation and route analysis require a connected line network.

At a minimum, your dataset must contain:

  • Line geometries representing the network (road segments)

  • Connectivity properties (start node and end node identifiers) that define how segments connect to each other

The platform uses the connectivity properties to determine which segments can follow one another when a user clicks segments to build a route.

Required connectivity properties

Your line dataset must include:

  • Start node id (the node id where the segment begins)

  • End node id (the node id where the segment ends)

In the dataset schema, these must be configured with special content types, for example:

  • from_node configured as Edge start node ID

  • to_node configured as Edge end node ID

These names may differ in your source data, but the meaning must be the same: one property identifies the start node and one property identifies the end node.

If start/end node ids are missing or not configured, route creation will be unavailable.

Supported data set types for routing

Route analysis can be applied to:

  • Geometry datasets (network is static; analysis attributes come from associated data)

  • Time series datasets (attributes vary over time, enabling richer temporal analysis)

  • Movement path datasets (network is a static geometry data set, the movement path data set represents the trips along the network)

The core requirement is still the same: the network geometry must be lines with connectivity information.

Route analysis is supported for both native and database data sets.

Configure your data set

To configure a dataset for route analysis:

  1. Create a new dataset (Geometry or Time Series) using line geometries.

  2. In the dataset configuration, define the connectivity properties in the collapsable panel below the preview table:

    1. Map your “start node id” property to an Edge start node ID type

    2. Map your “end node id” property to an Edge end node ID type

  3. Upload/finalize the dataset.

Configuring your road network data set with required connectivity information
Configuring the start node column with special content type *Edge start node ID*
Configuring the end node column with special content type *Edge end node ID*
Properties are locked after upload or finalization. If you see a message like “Cannot modify properties because data has already been uploaded”, create a new dataset with the correct properties.