Optimal Route Trips

You may retrieve 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 amongst his latest explosive map  - The Optimal Road Trip of the States National Parks.

Randy Olson has made a fight of a hobby out of mapping optimal route trips. Randy's 'optimal route trips' are maps which demonstrate yous the shortest routes roughly a pose out of dissimilar destinations - otherwise known every bit 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 roughly America, taking inwards all 47 national parks inside the contiguous states. The Optimal Road Trip of the States National Parks shows a 14,498 mile route roughly the the States which allows yous to catch all of the National Parks inwards the shortest distance. Randy estimates it volition cause got yous roughly 2 months to complete.

Randy's maps cause got likewise 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 roughly Republic of Republic of India which visits all 55 of the Indian locations inwards National Geographic's Short Breaks inwards India.

VROOM has likewise created a pose out of animated optimal route trips. The VROOM Optimized Road Trips Gallery includes 3 animated maps; a coast to coast the States route trip through 48 state capitals, a tour of the 244 biggest towns inwards metropolitan French Republic too a trip roughly 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.