Archived

This project is now archived and replaced with the SpawnpointClusterTool located at https://github.com/Kneckter/SpawnpointClusterTool.

TSP Py

A python script that will sort coordinates by using the TSP Solver module to make the shortest route through a list of coordinates. I did not write this script but I wanted to show it in this repository since it works better than my VBS macro. I did modified it slightly so it does not need Tkinter.

Proof of concent is shown in the image below. The first image is a path of 400 coordinates generated from RDM Tools. The second image is a path of the same coordinates using the AutoSortCoords macro. The last image is the path using the same coordinates and the pythong script.

Get Started With Python

To get started using the python script, you can download the two python files or git clone https://github.com/Kneckter/AutoSortCoords/ -b python for this repository branch. The script requires python's matplotlib package for calculating the route. You can install it with pip install matplotlib. Note that I have only tested this with Python 2.7

Once you have the files on your system, create a text file of your coordinates named infile.txt that has one coordinate pair per line like this:

15.0001,-25.0001
15.0002,-25.0002
15.0003,-25.0003

Then run the command python tsp.py infile.txt > outfile.txt to sort the coordinates and output them to outfile.txt. The outfile will be formatted as one coordinate pair per line like the infile.

Notes

This has been tested on Ubuntu 18.04 with Python 2.7.

Thanks to https://github.com/dmishin/tsp-solver for the tsp-solver module. Thanks to http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/, you can upload your coordinates and get images like the ones in this post.