it can take months of planning and its fair share of disagreements on the way to plan the perfect road trip but now one american scientist believes he has planned the perfect european road trip that means we can all put away those atlases and close down google maps michigan data scientist, randy olsen, has come up with route using an algorithm that calculates shortest distance, excluding any journeys over water scroll down for video  the journey takes in 45 stop offs in total, taking in countries such as the uk, portugal, bulgaria, estonia and finland covering 16,287 miles and 14 days of driving, mr olsen advises putting three months aside to explore the cities rather than looking at every possible solution, olsen used something known as a 'genetic algorithms' which starts with just a few random solutions it then manipulates these solutions, while trying something slightly different each time, until it finds one that it can't improve on innsbruck, austria  munich, germany  pag, croatia  venice, italy  tuscany, italy  florence, italy  rome, italy  vatican city  amalfi, italy  gozo, malta  dubrovnik, croatia  santorini, thira, greece  rila monastery, rilski manastir, bulgaria  istanbul, turkey  sighisoara, mures county, romania  budapest, hungary  vienna, austria  prague, czech republic  krakow, poland  jägala waterfall, 74205 harjumaa, estonia  lapland, finland  icebar, marknadsvägen, jukkasjärvi, sweden  bergen, norway  copenhagen, denmark  berlin, germany  amsterdam, netherlands  keukenhof, stationsweg, lisse, netherlands  edinburgh, united kingdom  inverness, united kingdom  ballybunion, ireland  cliffs of moher, clare, ireland  cornwall, england  stonehenge, amesbury, united kingdom  london, united kingdom  brussels, belgium  paris, france  pamplona, spain  lagos, portugal  granada, spain  ibiza, spain  barcelona, spain  luberone, bonnieux, france  nice, france  monte carlo, monaco  interlaken, switzerland  paris in france is obviously included in olsen's ultimate european road trip map, as he wanted to take in many famous landmarks  olsen is the man behind the 'where's waldo' ('where's wally' in the uk) algorithm where he looked at numerous pages of the famous children's illustrative challenges, and developed a mapping theory on how best to locate all the bespectacled characters using similar methodology, olsen then took on the challenge of planning the best us road trip   ensuring the car would never leave home soil on its route his only limitation was to make one stop in all 48 contiguous us states, along with washington dc and two stops in california there is a scheduled stop off at the world famous prehistoric monument of stonehenge in wiltshire, uk  each stop would be at a national natural landmark, national historic site, national park or national monument and the car could never leave us soil to create the map, mr olsen first found the shortest distance by road between each of the 50 landmarks provided the tricky part was putting the landmarks in order to eliminate as much driving back on himself as possible you will get the chance to stretch your legs and take in some cycling exercise with a stop off in amsterdam 
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randy olsen has come up with route using an algorithm that calculates shortest distance for a special road trip  journey takes in 45 stop offs in total, taking in countries such as the uk, portugal, bulgaria, estonia and finland  scientist had earlier devised the ultimate us road trip, and famous for the 'where's waldo' algorithm 