How do you create a custom Network Configuration File for OSM Networks in ArcMap?

AmberKenyon

I am not very competent with coding, and need to do some pedestrian routing using an OSM Network Dataset in ArcMap, however, I do not have a pedestrian network configuration file and do not have a clue how to make one. Can anyone provide me with one, or tell me how I can simply make one?

LuisDel_Vigo

Hi Amber

You can edit the evaluators (sorry, before I said parameters) of the network in  its properties. To access to evaluators in the Arc Catalog right click in Network dataset > Properties > Atributtes

Here you can edit the several evaluators, for example the speed of the network in the differents kind of road. For this, you mark Speed and click in Evaluators. Then it opens one new box

In this box you can mark the sources that yo wnat to edit. in yhis case BASE_nd roads and click in the Evaluators properties, then appears a new box and in the Pre-logic Script Code you can change the values of the speed for the differents kind of roads.

You must change these values in both directions, From-To and To-From

In the same way you can change other characteristics in the network dataset

You can change this values too in the Network Configuration file with an xml editor located in "C:\...\ArcGIS\Desktop10.1\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\ND_ConfigFiles"

and save with a new name to keep the original configuraion file. With this new configuration file you can create the network dataset from the beginning with the  "Create OSM Netwok Dataset" tool (OpenStreetMap Toolboox).