jochem

I forgot to CC the list, sorry.

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Subject: Re: [php] Maps
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:25:06 +0100
From: Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com>
To: robert@webtent.com
References: <1196879273.12363.13.camel@columbus.webtent.org>


google maps is no real help here, your able to plot points but there is no
API interface with their routing functionality (so you have no idea where roads
actually are) ... you've been asked to solve the travelling salesman problem,
this is hard.

time to start reading:
http://www.google.com/search?q=travelling+salesman+problem

and more specifically (with an eye to finding something that solves the problem for you):

http://www.google.com/search?q=travelling+salesman+problem+google+maps

chances are you'll end up building something expensive, likely that offering something
that allows these salepeople to quickly/easily link to google/yahoo/whatever maps and
then manually view/tweak their route will be a lot less painful to implement and alot
more cost effective.