http://www.innoparticularorder.com/2007/04/swim-across-the-atlantic-ocean-3462mi-google/ eCommerce, business, publishing, stuff... Ian Jindal's weblog. Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:09:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.innoparticularorder.com/2007/04/swim-across-the-atlantic-ocean-3462mi-google/comment-page-1/#comment-62 KFC Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:04:47 +0000 http://www.pencil.net/bl0g/?p=254#comment-62 The reason it always goes to France is that mapping algorithms work with a series of points (vertices) and edges with varying weights. Each edge connects a discrete point. So if you apply a routing algorithm, such as Dijkstra's algorithm to your network of points, it can obviously only make land fall at a place at which there is a point and an edge connecting to that point. The engineers at google decided to make that point be in Parris, France. The reason it always goes to France is that mapping algorithms work with a series of points (vertices) and edges with varying weights. Each edge connects a discrete point. So if you apply a routing algorithm, such as Dijkstra’s algorithm to your network of points, it can obviously only make land fall at a place at which there is a point and an edge connecting to that point. The engineers at google decided to make that point be in Parris, France.

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