Tristram Gräbener schreef:
>>> There a good chances that they use an approach similar to that one :
>>>
>>> Precomputation:
>>> - Find 100 × 100 points in europe (that means a point every 30km)
>>> - Compute the distance between all those points and store it
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Every 30km?  Choose a popular location close to it ..
>>     
> Not really necessary, as anyway you will compute the shortest path to
> that point. The goal is only to have a very good distance estimation.
> Not the path itself.
> Of course being smart while choosing the points will turn out in a
> slightly faster solution. Not really a big deal.
>
> And even choosing a 1000×1000grid (a node every 3km) will only consume
> 4 Mb (you just store a duration for every pair  of start-destination).
> But you will need to run one million times a shortest path algorithm
> in before hand.
>
>   
This is a variant of distcc or distmp3 (in debian/ubuntu the pkg are 
called so).



Marc


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