pgRouting - Routing on PostgreSQL

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Branches

• The main branch has the development of the next micro release
• The develop branch has the development of the next minor/major release

For the complete list of releases go to: https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/releases

For the release notes go to: https://docs.pgrouting.org/latest/en/release_notes.html

LINKS

• https://pgrouting.org/
• https://docs.pgrouting.org/
• https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting

STATUS

Status of the project can be found here

INTRODUCTION

pgRouting extends the PostGIS/PostgreSQL geospatial database to provide geospatial routing and other network analysis functionality.

This library contains the following features:

• All Pairs Shortest Path Algorithms
• A-star algorithm
• Bi-directional algorithms
• A variety of applications of Dijkstra algorithms
  • Cost functions
  • With points
• Driving Distance
  • With points
• Yen's algorithm
• Traveling Sales Person (TSP)

and many more.

The latest documentation: https://docs.pgrouting.org/latest

REQUIREMENTS

Building requirements

• perl
• C and C++ compilers
  • Compiling with Boost 1.56 up to Boost 1.74 requires C++ Compiler with C++03 or C++11 standard support
  • Compiling with Boost 1.75 requires C++ Compiler with C++14 standard support
• Postgresql = Supported version by PostgreSQL
  • Not supporting v12 & under
• The Boost Graph Library (BGL) >= 1.56
• CMake >= 3.12
• 4.0.0 <= Sphinx < 7.0

User's requirements

• PostGIS

COMPILATION

For MinGW on Windows

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G"MSYS Makefiles" ..
make
make install

Also pre-built Windows binaries can be downloaded from https://postgis.net/windows_downloads

For Linux

mkdir build
cd build
cmake  ..
make
sudo make install

Build with documentation (requires Sphinx)

cmake -DWITH_DOC=ON ..

Postgresql

createdb mydatabase
psql mydatabase -c "CREATE EXTENSION pgrouting CASCADE"

USAGE

See online documentation: http://docs.pgrouting.org/latest/en/index.html

CITATION

To cite pgRouting in publications use:

BibTeX entry:

    @Manual{,
      title = {{pgRouting: Routing on PostgreSQL}},
      author = {{pgRouting contributors}},
      year = {2025},
      doi = {10.5281/zenodo.15004469},
      url = {https://pgrouting.org/},
    }

LICENSE

• Most features are available under GPL-2.0-or-later
• Some Boost extensions are available under Boost license (see LICENSE_1_0.txt)
• Some code contributed by iMaptools.com is available under MIT-X license.