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jpeterbaker / maxfield

Code for maximizing the Ingress fields on a given set fo portals
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accuracy of calculated agent-travel distance (and time)? #39

Open yosimor opened 7 years ago

yosimor commented 7 years ago

If I understand correctly, the distance between a given pair of portals (which indirectly also determines the amount of required travel time) is calculated based upon the simple line-of-sight route, and does not take into account the real-world walking/driving route.

If it were somehow possible to utilize the Google Maps knowledge of the latter [via the Distance Matrix API?] in order to make the calculations more meaningful, that would be most wonderful!

Also, it would be nice if each step of the Agent's plan, in traveling from one link-origin to the next, could show the calculated travel distance (and time) from the previous step.

jpeterbaker commented 7 years ago

You are correct about how distances are calculated. I'm not nearly good enough of a programmer to incorporate Google Maps info, but printing travel distance/time to the next portal is certainly possible. I haven't been actively developing this for a while, but I'll leave this on my list of ideas for future improvements.