Promote pgr_dijkstraNear and pgr_dijkstraNearCost to proposed

[TimMcCauley]

We have been using pgr_dijkstraNear for a clients project heavily over the last few months. With this functionality being in development phase, we can ascertain that it is running stable. By the way, in other services this functionality is often referred to as something around the term "matrix". Maybe the naming could be improved (especially for SEO reasons) as I believe that this will be used by many other pgRouting enthusiasts.

[dkastl]

Thanks for the feedback!
Maybe we should have something to collect "votes" of users to move "experimental" functions to "stable" after a certain number of confirmations ;-)

Regarding the name, would you say "matrix" suits better? I would expect probably something different with "matrix", but I don't have a suggestion either.

[TimMcCauley]

Thinking about it again, you are probably right Daniel. As this function returns the shape, the matrix alone doesn't make too much sense, maybe something like pgr_dijkstraMatrixRoutes ?

[cvvergara]

@TimMcCauley Can you point out where the "matrix" name comes from? I normally associate a matrix with this kind of matrix

[cvvergara]

I can find this term:
https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=graph++neaerst+neighbor
But for graphs, only I can find matrix as representation of a graph
https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=graph++matrix

[cvvergara]

Wondering how could one explain with the term "matrix" this example
https://docs.pgrouting.org/latest/en/pgr_dijkstraNear.html#combinations

[TimMcCauley]

@cvvergara the one-to-many / many-to-many / many-to-one has a "matrix-like" structure in the input params but as I already mentioned, it doesn't make much sense, as it returns more detail than a common matrix computation would yield such as pgr_dijkstraCostMatrix

pgr_dijkstraNear(Edges SQL, Start vid, End vids [, directed] [, cap])
pgr_dijkstraNear(Edges SQL, Start vids, End vid [, directed] [, cap])
pgr_dijkstraNear(Edges SQL, Start vids, End vids [, directed] [, cap], [global])

[cvvergara]

This is the Cost version of Dijkstra Near :-)
https://docs.pgrouting.org/latest/en/pgr_dijkstraNearCost.html

[cvvergara]

So we keep the name :-)
Will label it for enhancement

[TimMcCauley]

Yes agreed, one name that may work is dijkstraPairs but let's come back to that later :-)