
In Actionscript, I’m trying to work out the best way to create the shortest route between two point on the map above. I have all the distances.
Algorithms like A* I dont think are relevant as it is near impossible to work out the heuristic distance.
I thought I could create a big array of all the nodes with the distances to any connected nodes and just iterate through until Ive found the the shortest distance, but this I know is very inefficient.
I think you are looking for this algorithm:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra%27s_algorithm