Two similar via-points-related questions I'd like to hear people's
opinions on. I realise that out-of-the-box OSRM might not be able to
solve these efficiently, but I'd be interested to hear ideas how one
might build a plugin (or other code) to solve these.
1. Sometimes users of cycle.travel plan routes with a _lot_ of via
points, e.g. http://cycle.travel/map/journey/19429 . Often, many of
these via points are unnecessary: for example, the route from 'via 13'
to 'via 15' would pass through 'via 14' anyway.
I'd like to add an option to eliminate these unnecessary points. I could
do a fairly naive implementation, repeatedly routing between each pair
and eliminating those which aren't necessary, but wonder if there's a
smarter way of doing it.
2. Often people ask for a way to upload routes (e.g. in GPX or KML
format, perhaps created with another routing website). This would be
cool if the resulting routes were editable.
In other words, for a given polyline, reconstruct the via points
necessary for (an approximation of) that polyline.
Strava built something like this the other year:
https://twitter.com/paulmach/status/668921393656954880 . I can't get it
to work, but the "divide and conquer" principle I guess is basically
analogous to Douglas-Peucker: find a route from (start) to (end), find
the polyline point furthest from the generated route, add a via there,
and repeat until no points are more than n metres from the route.
Again, I could probably hack a naive implementation together, but wonder
if there's a smarter way to do it!
Any ideas welcome. These could be fun challenges but I'd just like to
get some second opinions before embarking on them...
cheers
Richard
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