Vehicle-Position-Challenge-Attempt

Problem solving approach

• Attempted to sort the vehicle positions by either longitude or latitude unsuccessful

  • The amount of vehicle positions in the file is way to high for this approach

• Create a search radius to eliminate points that fall outside of the radius successful

  • Reduces the number of points to loop through
  • Use one of the 10 vehicle positions as the center point of the search radius
  • Select the vehicle position that is the closest to the "center" of the 10 vehicle points for the lowest radius

• Reduce the search radius for each of the 10 points unsuccessful

  • Reduce the number of positions even more
  • Sort the distances between the center point and each of the 10 vehicle positions from high to low
  • Assign the distances to the search radius. Ending up with 10 different search radius
  • Reduce number of vehicle positions to loop through with every reduction in search radius
  • The copy of vehicle points into a filtered/reduced buffer cost to much time therefore this approach was unsuccessful