You may holler upwards Randy Olson from such maps as The Optimal Road Trip Across the U.S. and The Optimal Road Trip Across Europe. Now Randy is dorsum alongside his latest explosive map - The Optimal Road Trip of U.S.A. National Parks.
Randy Olson has made a chip of a hobby out of mapping optimal route trips. Randy's 'optimal route trips' are maps which demonstrate y'all the shortest routes some a give away of dissimilar destinations - otherwise known equally the traveling salesman problem.
To grade this month's centenary of the National Park Service Randy has created an interactive map which shows the optimal route some America, taking inward all 47 national parks inside the contiguous states. The Optimal Road Trip of U.S.A. National Parks shows a 14,498 mile route some the U.S.A. which allows y'all to view all of the National Parks inward the shortest distance. Randy estimates it volition conduct keep y'all some ii months to complete.
Randy's maps conduct keep besides inspired others to practise their ain optimal route trips. For example, Apoorv Anand has created a map providing an Optimal Road Trip Around India. Apoorv's map shows the shortest route some Republic of Republic of India which visits all 55 of the Indian locations inward National Geographic's Short Breaks inward India.
VROOM has besides created a give away of animated optimal route trips. The VROOM Optimized Road Trips Gallery includes 3 animated maps; a coast to coast U.S.A. route trip through 48 Earth capitals, a tour of the 244 biggest towns inward metropolitan French Republic as well as a trip some 2,232 Irish Gaelic pubs.
The optimal routes for each trip were calculated using VROOM, an optimization engine for vehicle routing problems. The animated polylines for the routes were created using the SnakeAnim plug-in for Leaflet maps.
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