Wednesday 16 July 2014

Forget The Shortest Route Across A City; New Algorithm Finds The Most Beautiful


If you prefer beautiful routes over short ones, GPS mapping algorithms are of little use. But Yahoo researchers have come up with an approach that could change that.

Daniele Quercia at Yahoo Labs in Barcelona in Spain has worked out how to measure the 'beauty' of specific locations within cities and then designed an algorithm that automatically chooses a route between two locations in a way that maximizes the beauty along it.

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