At 2014-11-17 14:47:50 +0530, Deep Pradhan <pradhandeep1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was going through the graphx section in the Spark API in
> https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/scala/index.html#org.apache.spark.graphx.lib.ShortestPaths$
>
> Here, I find the word "landmark". Can anyone explain to me what is landmark
> means. Is it a simple English word or does it mean something else in graphx.

The "landmarks" in the context of the shortest-paths algorithm are just the 
vertices of interest. For each vertex in the graph, the algorithm will return 
the distance to each of the "landmark" vertices.

Ankur

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