Tim,
was that a deliberate allusion to the traveling salesman problem?
"
Given a collection of cities and the cost of travel between each pair
of them, the traveling salesman problem, or TSP for short, is to find
the cheapest way of visiting all of the cities and returning to your
starting point. In the case we study, the travel costs are symmetric
in the sense that traveling from city X to city Y costs just as much as
traveling from Y to X.
The simplicity of the statement of the problem is deceptive -- the TSP
is one of the most intensely studied problems in computational
mathematics and yet no effective solution method is known for the
general case. Indeed, the resolution of the TSP would settle the P
versus NP problem and fetch a $1,000,000 prize from the Clay
Mathematics Institute.
"
http://www.tsp.gatech.edu/problem/index.html
Then again, if anyone could, Google could...
On the "maps improvement" front, I want drawable regions, so I can say,
plot a 5 mile radius from a certain address to determine whether the
Googleplex is within biking distance of my prospective apartments...
I do know someone on the maps team, so I might bring some of this up...
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apologies for the terseness of this email, I'm typing with a broken
wrist.
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On Apr 22, 2005, at 2:15 PM, Tim Colson ((tcolson)) wrote:
Thanks Vince --
Interesting site, at first glance, a bit more effort than I'd prefer --
I'm lazy. ;-)
I really like the Google maps stuff, especially that I can type "4755 N
Oracle Rd, Tucson, AZ" all in one line and not have to take the time to
pick fields. Computers are smart, they can figure that string out. ;-)
I want the same "super simple UI" so I could paste in addresses,
perhaps
delimited by semicolons... have them plotted. Click on "Get Directions"
and it routes from A-B-C. Click "Round Trip" and it plots A-B-C-A. Then
use Edit-in-place DHTML voodoo (linke below) to allow me to drag/drop
to
create a rout efrom A-C-B-A.
http://tool-man.org/examples/edit-in-place.html
THAT would rock. ;-)
And even better...you specify the starting point and it figures out the
shortest route to all the spots. (Sales folks would dig that.)
Timo
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Try www.randmcnally.com. Use the trip planner and you can
add all kinds of stops and get detailed driving directions and maps.
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