NETCONVERT

=From 30.000 feet= NETCONVERT imports digital road networks from different sources and generates road networks that can be used by other tools from the package.
 * Purpose: Road networks import and conversion
 * System: portable (Linux/Windows is tested); runs on command line
 * Input (mandatory): Definition of a road network
 * Output: A generated SUMO-road network; optionally also other outputs
 * Programming Language: C++
 * Programming Language: C++

=Usage Description= NETCONVERT is a command line application. It assumes at least one parameter - the combination of the name of the file type to import as parameter name and the name of the file to import as parameter value. So, for importing a network from OpenStreetMap one could simply write: netconvert --osm my_osm_net.xml and for importing a VISUM-network: netconvert --visum my_visum_net.net In both cases, as no output name is given, the SUMO network generated from the imported data is written into the file "net.net.xml". To write the network into a different file, use the option -o &lt;OUTPUT_FILE>. If you want to save the imported VISUM-network into a file named "my_sumo_net.net.xml", write: netconvert --visum my_visum_net.net -o my_sumo_net.net.xml Many further parameter steer how the network is imported and how the resulting SUMO-network is generated.

Supported Formats
NETCONVERT is able to import road networks from the following formats:
 * "SUMO native" XML descriptions (*.edg.xml, *.nod.xml, *.con.xml)
 * OpenStreetMap (*.osm.xml), including shapes (see OpenStreetMap import)
 * VISUM, including shapes and demands
 * Vissim, including demands
 * OpenDRIVE
 * MATsim
 * SUMO (*.net.xml)
 * Shapefiles (.shp, .shx, .dbf), e.g. ArcView and newer Tiger networks
 * Robocup Rescue League, including shapes
 * a DLR internal variant of Navteq's GDF (Elmar format)

Options
You may use a XML schema definition file for setting up a NETCONVERT configuration: netconvertConfiguration.xsd.

Configuration
All applications of the SUMO-suite handle configuration options the same way. These options are discussed at Basics/Using the Command Line Applications.

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