Re: Doing dynamic routing for an office
| From: | Per Jessen | Date: | Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:30:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Doing dynamic routing for an office | ||
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Ian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have had a weird request as a project and that is to build a system
> where the clients can put down their office plans into a system and
> based on where you are in the buliding (either via defined kiosks or
> mobile dropdown filters) it will print out directions on how to get
> somewhere within that building. Now, to do it from a fixed location is
> okay - that could just be a manual input for each building, but for
> the variable start point I have no idea how to do it.
I don't know exactly where to go and look, but such mapping systems are
very common these days (think GPS navigation systems etc), so the
algorithms involved must be equally well known and -documented.
/Per
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Per Jessen, Zürich (-1.7°C)