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lbendlin
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:12 pm    Post subject: Can your navigation program do this? Reply with quote

There's a guy in the US who set up to visit all 48 mainland state capitols in his 84 VW Scirocco. He really must have a very generous fuelling credit card...

http://www.timbotrip.com/

Anyhow, he used MS Streets and Trips 2008 to plan and optimize the trip. While the picture doesn't exactly look optimized to me at least the software did not crash.



How about trying to plan such a route with your software?

Credit: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Go Timbo, go!
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Timbo is definitely roccin' the USA!!! VW "SHOULD" be PROUD!!! Idea Go Timbo!
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i bet he could have made the route spell something...!! would have made the picture more interesting!!

still, no doubt fuel is still cheaper over there than here!

currently 120.9p per litre (457.7p per us gallon = $8.59 per us gallon...)

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey - Timbo here!

I calculated the gas based on a 15,000 mile route at $4.00 per gallon at an average of 35 mpg - so that gave me a fuel budget of about $1,720. I set up www.timbotrip.com with a paypal donate button, and asked people to send be a couple of bucks for gas. I blog everything - on my site that has no ads at all - just the donate button. So far I have exceeded the fuel budget, but not reached the goal of $3000 which would cover hotels in a few states I don't know anybody in.

If I exceed the $3000 goal, I'm going to donate it to a charity - the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Its a long time ago but when Mapopolis was top of the heap I did this with my 12Mb/100Mhz SmartPhone...

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Even IGo8 on a high spec device struggles with trips over 500Miles!!
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Welcome to the forum Timbo and good luck!
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 2:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Around the county town of England, Routes from MS Autoroute, Quickest and Shortest


see for route details



Details image removed - far too big for the page, please reduce them to 400 pixels wide if you want to re-post them - DennisN
for shortest see


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 2:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Isn't this the travelling salesman problem and hence NP-Hard (calculation time goes up exponentially with the number of stops)?
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 3:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

worried wrote:
Around the county town of England, Routes from MS Autoroute, Quickest and Shortest


Cute. And whatcha gonna do in the afternoon? Laughing



1,430 miles one way, 30 hrs. $200 of gas. $8.95 for a shower at a truck stop. Two packs of Marlboro Lights. Couple gallons of coffee. Three boxes of Mickey Dee's chicken nuggets (ten pieces each).

OK, admittedly, that was a bit insane.

Fuzzy and blurry images here:
http://flickr.com/photos/22748375@N08/

Also, my TomTom did it just fine. Except for the parts where it suicidally leaps off the windshield every 800 miles.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 6:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

iGO2006 would do somthing like i think one or 2 others will too
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Around the county town of England, Routes from MS Autoroute, Quickest and Shortest

A liitle bit out,I think you will find that Truro is the county town of Cornwall, not St Austell, Truro is the only city in Cornwall.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Perhaps apologies,Looked at map again and it looks like you did hit Truro, St Austell is marked as town previous.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kar98 wrote:
worried wrote:
Around the county town of England, Routes from MS Autoroute, Quickest and Shortest


1,430 miles one way, 30 hrs. $200 of gas.


nice... we just about managed 940miles which cost about £110 in fuel (about $230) and that was in a pretty fuel efficient car where we averaged 44.8 miles per gallon (uk gallon)...

that's why we brits don't do long journeys like that in a car - it's jst far too expensive!

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thought I would give the UK trip another go this time from East to West, Quick first then Shortest



route details Here




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