Integrate Optimap TSP solver

[syphernl]

I'm a big fan of GC Little helper (although its not so little anymore :-)). It would be nice if this addon would implement support for Optimap.

Optimap is a webapplication/site that can be used to enter coordinates and find the fastest route between the points. I always use to make the most optimal Geocaching route

Routes can be added with GET parameters nameX and locX where X is a number from 0 to .... The end result is an URL like:

http://www.optimap.net/index.php?name0=Start&loc0=(60,10)&name1=First stop&loc1=(59.5,9.8)&name2=2nd stop&loc2=Askroken 51

How I see it:

• A button on the cache page (or even/also checkboxes on the search results/bookmark pages etc) that adds the cache name, code & coordinates into a local cache (GM_setValue)
• Also, a button to remove the cache from the route/queue would be nice.
• A button to "Make Optimap" which encodes the saved arguments into the URL and opens a new window to it.
• Don't forget to use the Home coordinates (which GC Little Helper already knows) as first location

The downside is that I haven't found a way to change the route options, especially since we're generally using this when cycling rather than car routes (default setting).

[Torsten-]

Hi,

do you know GCTour? Maybe this will fit better to GCTour, because there you already have the possibility to add Caches to a tour-list.

Regards Torsten

[syphernl]

I did recall using it in the past, but it seems quite unmaintained and its not on GitHub so no feature requests. So: Perhaps GCLittleHelper should a tour function integrated then :-)

[lukeIam]

They are on google code: https://code.google.com/p/gctour/issues/list

[lukeIam]

GCTour is a powerful software - replicating its functions would be a lot of work...

[Torsten-]

By now there is no chance to adding GCTour-functions to GClh. There is enough work to keep GClh running :-)