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dfsnow committed Feb 3, 2025
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clause of your query. Similarly, specify only the columns you _need_ in
`SELECT`. Doing both of these will greatly increase query speed.
- The OpenTimes data is pretty big — roughly 140 billion rows and 500GB
_compressed_. You can try to query the whole thing at once, but you'll
probably crash DuckDB first. Be warned.
_compressed_. If you try to `SELECT *` the whole `times` table you'll
probably crash DuckDB. Be warned.
- Conversely, querying individual pairs using DuckDB is highly performant. If
you specify all partition keys, an origin ID, and a destination ID, you'll
usually get a response in a few seconds.
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- ZCTAs (ZIP codes)
All routing is performed from each origin in a state to all destinations
in the same state *plus a 300km buffer around the state*. Routing only occurs
in the same state _plus a 300km buffer around the state_. Routing only occurs
between geographies of the same type i.e. tracts route to tracts, counties to
counties, etc.
Data is updated once new Census geographies are released (usually fall of
a given year). Yearly updates are considered a [SemVer](https://semver.org)
minor version. Small data corrections and tweaks are typically patch versions.
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## Limitations
OpenTimes is relatively _complete_ (i.e. there are few missing pairs),
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Actions (only a tiny portion of the national OSRM graph can fit in runner
memory).
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## Database structure
### Tables
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