Package routing and maps

2014-07-25 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I'm doing some research on routing packages using something like Google maps. Basically, if you take a starting location, give it a few waypoints, and an ending location, the program/api will calculate the best route for it. The classic traveling salesman problem. I've found a few examples but I

RE: Package routing and maps

2014-07-25 Thread Eric Roberts
I believe the google API has something for that. I don't remember details, but that is the direction I would look. You can then leverage java to access the api. -Original Message- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:mdino...@houseoffusion.com] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 4:08 PM To:

Re: Package routing and maps

2014-07-25 Thread Michael Dinowitz
You are correct. There's Google, TMW, Webfleet, etc. What have I missed and what have people used? On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Eric Roberts ow...@threeravensconsulting.com wrote: I believe the google API has something for that. I don't remember details, but that is the direction I

RE: Package routing and maps

2014-07-25 Thread Eric Roberts
Google has the best integration with CF as it is a java API. Plus there are CF tagsd that work together with google maps. -Original Message- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:mdino...@houseoffusion.com] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 6:08 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Package routing and maps

Re: Package routing and maps

2014-07-25 Thread Captain Obvious
Just use the google maps javascript api. No cf or java required. As with the cf UI tags, skip the cfmap tags - after ten minutes with the js api you won't need them. On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Eric Roberts ow...@threeravensconsulting.com wrote: Google has the best integration with CF as