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Route Optimization with the Google Maps API

Published On: November 03, 2010 @ 08:49:05am

Have you ever wanted to know the shortest possible route travelled between multiple locations? So does the U.S. Postal Service, UPS, and thousands of other logistics and shipping companies around the world. In fact, known as the “travelling salesman problem”, it has been a problem under close scrutiny for more than a century. In the latest issue of JSMag, I show you how to incorporate the Google Maps API’s traveling salesman algorithm implementation into your location-based services!

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