Shortest “round trip” by walking to every McDonald’s location in Northern Ireland [OC]
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Shortest “round trip” by walking to every McDonald’s location in Northern Ireland [OC]
Posted by thorntonsclassic
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I had to collect the data myself as I could not find a suitable dataset for it (second slide) (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=all+mcdonalds+locations+in+ni)
Map generated with QGIS + ORS Tools Isodistances plugin
Icons made by myself
No walking, as you’ll have the runs after that trip
This is just what I’ve been looking for!
Now do America. We’ll wait
Bravo, good science and good craic too
That’s not an accomplishment. McDonalds is not food, it’s potential fat.
And I would walk 363 miles…
Walking this route at a moderate pace would burn about 21,000 calories at a weight of 70kg.
Could lose 3.5kg at a minimum if you were to eat 2000 calories a day at McDonalds while walking this route in its entirety. Totally possible over 2 weeks at 8 hours of walking a day. Might need to stock up on burgers during the long stretches. and eat salads between the short distances.
So this is an NP-Hard problem. How do you prove this is the shortest? Did you try every combination? I guess with such a small number of locations you could