Garage Sale Routes And Mapping?

[Cambot]

I've been using Mapsonus for mapping out routes for garage sales as I've only been in this area for about a year, and I'm still not as familiar with it as I am with my hometown. Does anyone use a good online or free map application for garage sale-ing? I want one where you can enter multiple destinations and have it plan a route. Mapsonus sort of does it, but you need to put them in a logical order, yourself. It does routes, but will not figure out the best sequential order of destinations. It just keeps the order of locations you entered. Also, it only goes up to five. Yahoo is working on a new Beta, but I don't think it does routes either.

If you have any advice, please myself and everyone know.

 

[wubb]

Traveling salesman problem is one of the classics in comp sci. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_Salesman_Problem

But a program could be made that produces a good route if not the gauranteed best route. Unfortunately I don't know of one and am just replying to show off my big brain.

My system is to just hit the same loop every Saturday looking for signs, there are a few good neighborhoods near me that almost always have plenty of sales to eat up the full morning. Exceptions are when I get a good tip or a really good sale is advertised in the paper. Still I find 'multi-family' often just means some lady had her sister bring a few pots over to sell, too. If the multi-family ad lists a specific street address I almost always scratch that off as bogus. It's too bad people don't figure out how to list their sales effectively. My aunt's neighborhood has an anual sale that a good third of her community participates in. There are probably close to 100 sales in a small area, but you wouldn't know it from the ad. (In their HOA you can ONLY do a yard sale when the whole community throws one, so everyone piles up that one weekend.)

Uh, yeah so no answer to your question, just a long rambling story for you :lol: