How Does Google Maps Actually Work?
The math behind Google Maps. Sponsored by boot.dev - Click this link https://boot.dev/?promo=VERITASIUM and use our code VERITASIUM to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev. If you’re looking for a molecular modelling kit, try Snatoms, a kit I invented where the atoms snap together magnetically - https://ve42.co/SnatomsV Sign up for the Veritasium newsletter for weekly science updates - https://ve42.co/Newsletter For those curious about the path-count estimate: we estimated the non-backtracking paths NYC→SF, using a sparse spatial network model with mean degree ≈ 2.5 and characteristic length ≈ √N. ▀▀▀ 0:00 What is a ‘shortest path algorithm’? 3:30 Dijkstra’s 20 Minute Algorithm 6:30 The First Route Planner 10:31 A* Search Algorithm 12:40 Shortest Doesn’t Mean Fastest 15:08 Road Network Hierarchy 18:29 Mapping North America - Nested Dissection 25:17 How do map apps work? 28:04 Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability ▀▀▀ Check out @twoswap's channel for some fantastic videos! A big thank you to Ben Strasser and Julian Dibbelt who were incredibly gracious with their time and feedback. Thank you to all the experts we interviewed for this video: Aaron Bernstein, Tim Roughgarden, Tomas Rokicki, Jon Kleinberg, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Peter Sanders, and the team behind the SSSP Barrier Paper: Xinkai Shu, Ran Duan, Xiao Mao, Longhui Yin, Jiayi Mao For more information on how you choose A*'s heuristic, check out Polylog's video: https://youtu.be/A60q6dcoCjw?si=5LHOmZ8ZKvR_kLcx If you'd like more information on Minecraft's A*, check out RedLogic's video: https://youtu.be/Zg0Cxn8AVZA?si=DyECX4wmeuSb4c1n ▀▀▀ References: https://ve42.co/DijkstraRefs ▀▀▀ Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Adam Foreman, Albert Wenger, Alex Porter, Alexander Tamas, André Powell, Anton Ragin, Balkrishna Heroor, Bertrand Serlet, Blake Byers, Bruce, Bryan Ackermann, Chris Brewer, Data Don, Dave Kircher, David Johnston, David Tseng, EJ Alexandra, Evgeny Skvortsov, Ga
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