Yes Wilfried,

that is the problem, calulate a route with points with no order and no starting or ending point.

I visit your site and I found you are a Delphin (and also a "Clipper-man").
It's exactly my professionalbackground!

Was the coffee good?

Marcello

Hi Marcello,

Clipper is a long time ago, and yes the coffee was good

I assume the user has to pick somewhere a starting point (where he is), and where he wants to end, and you have to give him all the points that are near to his "tour" he wants to make.

I have code to calculate bearing and distance (trough the bird's eye) from 2 points latitude and longitude. So this way it is easy to find the nearest place in a particular direction. I have it in C and in Delphi, if you wants it then I drop it here.

So if that is more or less waht you have to accomplish I think the algoritm has to be something like:

- find nearest point of interest from starting place in direction of end place
- put it as waypoint to mappoint
- do again until eind point is closer than next point.

I "think" it has to be something like that. Maybe it is a start ? What do you think ?

Hi Wilfried,

also for me Clipper is only a postcard from the past.

I think that your suggestions are good and I will follow them.
Thank you for the code, but in this moment I'm just offering the solution to my customer, Monday evening I will have a meeting, I will inform you about.

So, if I will need the code, I will ask you in a second moment.

Thank you for your kindness.

Marcello

Hi Marcello,

Ok. I hope this go trought. because it is an interesing project
Have success with you meeting.

Hi Wilfried,

in the weekend I was looking information in MSDN, and I discovered that in MapPoint 2004 there is a feature of "Route optimization".
Do you know if is this usefull for my problems and if is posssible to use both services (MapPoint 2004 and MapPoint Web Services) in the same project?

Tomorrow I will tell you about the results of the meeting.

Bye

Marcello

Hi Marcello,

You mean the Optimize method ? I never tryed that one. As for the 2 project in one I dont think this can give any problem, but again: I did never try it. Maybe someone else can confirm this ?

Hi Wilfried,

yes I was thinking about Optimize method, that should resolve my problem.
I will try, at the moment I don't still have MapPoint, and then I will tell you.

It seems me that westerday night meeting was good (now I'm starting to belive to catch the project), the customer introduced some new requests. so nothing is still decided.

I have a new meeting on Monday night.


Thank you & bye

Marcello

Hi Marcello,

Originally Posted by Marcello

now I'm starting to belive to catch the project

I hope you catch it. Your project seems not easy but interesting and that is what matters, because it sharpes programmers imagination. An intersting project is like a good old Italian wine, you enjoy whilst tasting it