[Xastir-dev] first cut at geocoder

[J. Lance Cotton]

Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
>>well, but then, do you store the stuff you do it against in shape files or
>>something else? and how do you keep it in memory? some library kit?
> 
> I think we'd need to know which points are connected to which, and
> the distance for each line segment.  Using that we could calculate
> the shortest path between points A and B.  Trying to do this
> on-the-fly from shapefiles would be rather slow.

As a sort-of-side-note: If a user is using Shapefile maps and we use those 
for determining the route... Couldn't we build a new shapefile map with just 
the segments that were determined to be "the path" and store it in the tmp 
dir and have Xastir draw it with a bright color and a width of n+2 where n 
is the original width of the segment.

This doesn't have any bearing on finding the mapped path, but would that be 
a relatively easy way to display the results of such a path search?

-Lance KJ5O

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