Imperial Crossroads	#Gate 1
Great Pillars		#Zone
Octavius		#Faction
Great Pillars		#Zone
Great Pillars Station	#Gate 2
13282			#Distance from Gate 1 to Gate 2 in Zone

Dark Fork		#G1
Imperial Crossroads	#Zone
Octavius		#Faction
Imperial Crossroads	#Zone
Great Pillars		#G2
32660			...
Distance between Imperial Crossroads in Great Pillars and Great Pillars in Imperial Crossroads is 0 (Wormhole,Jumpgate,Magic,etc).

Eventual target is to create a weighted undirected graph for creation and application of shortest path algorithm on an undirected graph.

Are there any suggestions on a temporary storage structure or just read/slurp and shove it into Graph as it gets the data?

The idea I envisioned would it would create nodes based on a concatenation of Zone and Gate so as to handle the zero distance condition I mentioned above as then all combinations of FooBar and BarFoo would have a distance of zero.

Or would you suggest a different module/idea all together?

In reply to Undirected Weighted Graphs by OverlordQ

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