{"id":40,"date":"2009-09-21T20:02:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T01:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yardsaletreasuremap.com\/blogit\/?p=40"},"modified":"2016-03-19T12:55:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T17:55:42","slug":"route-optimization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yardsaletreasuremap.com\/blogit\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Route Optimization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One feature that is painfully absent from any of these kind of mapping web pages is route optimization.\u00a0 The map should tell you what the fastest route is rather than let you drive in circles and backtracking to hit the next sale.<\/p>\n<p>This is actually a pretty difficult problem to implement.\u00a0 Lots of math and fancy terms like <em>&#8220;traveling salesman&#8221;<\/em>, <em>&#8220;np hard&#8221;<\/em> and<em> &#8220;ant colonies&#8221;<\/em>.\u00a0 College math students do research projects to figure this out.\u00a0 Fortunately for you, the folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/gebweb.net\/optimap\/\">Optimap<\/a> have agreed to let <a href=\"http:\/\/yardsaletreasuremap.com\">YSTM<\/a> use their optimization magic to make your life easier!<\/p>\n<p>I have added an &#8220;Optimize Route&#8221; button on Step 2 of <a href=\"http:\/\/yardsaletreasuremap.com\">YSTM<\/a>.\u00a0 If you have less than 21 sales mapped you can select this button and your spaghetti route will miraculously transform itself into a efficient trail!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43\" title=\"optimize_example\" src=\"http:\/\/yardsaletreasuremap.com\/blogit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/optimize_example.JPG\" alt=\"optimize_example\" width=\"771\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yardsaletreasuremap.com\/blogit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/optimize_example.JPG 771w, https:\/\/yardsaletreasuremap.com\/blogit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/optimize_example-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One feature that is painfully absent from any of these kind of mapping web pages is route optimization.\u00a0 The map should tell you what the fastest route is rather than let you drive in circles and backtracking to hit the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yardsaletreasuremap.com\/blogit\/?p=40\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yardsaletreasuremap.com\/blogit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yardsaletreasuremap.com\/blogit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yardsaletreasuremap.com\/blogit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yardsaletreasuremap.com\/blogit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yardsaletreasuremap.com\/blogit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/yardsaletreasuremap.com\/blogit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/yardsaletreasuremap.com\/blogit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yardsaletreasuremap.com\/blogit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yardsaletreasuremap.com\/blogit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yardsaletreasuremap.com\/blogit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}