[OSM-dev] Getting a distance to a way

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemeD.net
Mon Jul 21 11:25:35 BST 2008


Sven Anders wrote:

> Has someone a working algorithm to get the shortest distance from a node to a
> way?

Someone on here recently pointed me to:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/graphics/algorithms-faq/

which is full of wondrous stuff including the answer to your question.  
Definitely worth bookmarking.

cheers
Richard





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