QGIS plugin that creates isochrones map from network data.

Site - https://samweli.github.io/isochrones (still on development)

Install QGIS. Download it from http://download.qgis.org/. Instructions on installing QGIS for different Operating Sytstems is available here https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html#tab1

• Launch QGIS application and open plugin manager.
• Search for Isochrones in the All page of the plugin manager.
• From the found results, click on the Isochrones result item and a page with plugin information will show up.
• Click the Install Plugin button at the bottom of the dialog to install the plugin.

After a successful install the plugin will be added to the QGIS plugins menu and database menu.

• Get the plugin ZIP file from https://github.com/samweli/isochrones/releases, select the required release ZIP file and download it.

• From the Install from ZIP page in the QGIS plugin manager, select the downloaded ZIP file and click the Install Plugin button to install it.

  

The plugin is available on a custom QGIS plugin repository that host the plugin most recent versions.

The plugin from the custom repository can be used to get the latest features that haven't landed on the official released plugin version that are published in the QGIS official plugin repository.

The plugin versions available through the custom repository will be flagged experimental. This is because the custom repository might contain plugin versions that have not been approved yet for official use.

When updating the plugin manager users should, in order to make sure the plugin manager fetches the experimental plugins from the custom repository.

Following the below steps to add the custom repository and install the plugin from it.

• From the plugin manager enable download of experimental plugins.

  

• Select the Settings page from the QGIS plugin manager.

• Click Add button on the Plugin Repositories group box and use the plugin custom repository found here https://samweli.github.io/isochrones/repository/plugins.xml to create a new plugin repository entry.

  

• Disable the QGIS official plugin repository and go back to the All page, search for Isochrones and install it from there.

• Download or clone this repository and add the plugin folder into the QGIS plugin directory. The plugin directory is found on the QGIS profile folder under profile_name/plugins, eg. default/plugins.

  QGIS active profile folder can be found by going to User Profiles > Open Active Profile Folder

• Restart your Qgis, go to Plugins -> Manage and Install Plugins search for Isochrones

• Search results will show a result item with Isochrones title, toggle the checkbox beside the title to activate the plugin.

Postgres Database with version 9.5 or above, with Postgis(tested with version 3.1) and pgRouting (tested with version 3.1.3) extensions installed.

• Setup two postgresql tables one for the network and other for the catchments areas.

• Use test data is found here https://github.com/Samweli/isochrones/tree/master/test/data these are shapefiles that you will need to import in your postgresql database as tables.

• Make note of the important columns that will be needed when using the plugin, this includes the unique identifier and geometric column for both tables.
• The network data is required to have a column with a name cost and a number type, this will be used for the path calculations during isochrones creation.
• Open the plugin (it will be on the Database Menu and the QGIS toolbar) and fill the connection details followed by tables details.
• Checking the "Create isochrones map style" will generate tin and contour with a default plugin style.

You can watch the demo video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thBKETlQbqY

The network data before imported in the database should be prepared for routing, information on doing this can be found here http://www.bostongis.com/PrinterFriendly.aspx?content_name=pgrouting_osm2po_1

Isochrones is a free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) as published by the Free Software Foundation.

The full GNU General Public License is available in LICENSE.txt or http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html