On Mon featured Randy Olson's Optimal Road Trip of U.S. National Parks. Randy's map is an event of solving the Traveling Salesman Problem. This work involves finding the nearly efficient route taking inwards a issue of dissimilar waypoints. Randy's map shows the nearly efficient route for visiting all 47 national parks inside the contiguous states of the USA.
If yous desire to practise your ain optimal route maps as well as hence yous tin role Mapzen's Optimized Route API. This service allows yous to abide by the optimal route for a listing of locations, using your commencement place inwards the listing every bit the starting indicate as well as the final place every bit the ending point.
You tin stance the API inwards activity on a novel demo map which Mapzen published today on its blog. Optimizing Your Route explains how yous tin role the Optimized Route API. To illustrate the weblog post service Mapzen has created an optimal route of roughly of San Francisco's best burrito restaurants. If yous motion the markers on the map the route automatically updates to present the novel optimal route taking inwards the novel location.
