Host your own Map/Route Service API
The data is out there, you just need to expose it.
Route calculations… locally! For a recent project, we needed to calculate vehicle routes… a LOT of routes.
We were using an optimization algorithm to plan delivery vehicle routes with multiple stops. Because the previous stop of a vehicle determines the start location of the vehicle for the next “delivery” and the sheer scale of the system, it did not seem practical to pre-calculate all the routes before running the optimization. So we decided to calculate routes while running the algorithm.
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