Frederik Ramm schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
>     just played with Google routing from one side of London to the 
> other, and found it tends to display the fastest (often M25) route 
> first, but then offer a number of "alternatives", seemingly named after 
> the road that makes up the largest portion. So in addition to the 
> initial M25 route, you immediately get "M4 (xyz minutes)" and others. I 
> wonder how it is done, algorithmically. It must be more than just the 
> shortest and the fastest route. Does it perhaps store which routes 
> people print after playing aroung with via points, and use that, or 
> something?

>From what I could find they seem to
employ a database of fastest sub-routes
to break down routing to their usual
mapreduce-algorithm.
Can`t find the paper right now.
You could do such a thing yourself
using e.g. apache hadoop but it only
makes sense if LOTS of routes are
to be calculated.

Marcus

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