Re: Special query type for Spatial DB

ayeo_at_acm.org says...

> > If you could write a query to solve that, you'd be damn good. Sounds
> > like you are going to have to do a lot of work client side, though maybe
> > someone's implemented a solution to it in PG/SQL - though any solution
> > can only ever be partial.
 

> Might be a good senior-honors thesis topic that may lead on to an MS thesis topic. :-)
> Any potential grad students?

I honestly don't see how you could even start to do this in SQL - it's just the travelling salesman problem again, and I don't think there's an SQL implementation of even the beginnings of this.

Are you looking for a grad student or do you want to be one?

Paul...  

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