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Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by WiggleGuy »

duckapricottuba wrote: post #8

Would be nice to use conditions. Like, if there are multiple libraries in a city and I would like to evaluate being 15 minutes from any of them, have a condition able to be set - 15 minutes from: Library A OR Library B OR Library C

That actually is possible

Heatmaps are split into criteria, and each of those criteria can contain multiple places.

The criteria are OR clauses between any of the places, and the heatmap is an AND clause over all the criteria

So to do what you'd like, you'd place the libraries in the same criteria

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by WiggleGuy »

Terr_ wrote: post #3

I've always liked the idea of combining distance criteria, especially when something is good for public transit to work, but not good in terms of walkability to anything I care about. (Some people walk for fun, I always seem to need an errand.) I recall that Walkscore used to have something like this, and then it went away, and then it showed up on some other housing site... I was always surprised the type of feature…

The "grocery store" problem is something I've been thinking about for a while, since it has two problems:

- There are tons of grocery stores (efficiency of processing all of those)

- Not all grocery stores are the same (supermarkets vs pricey luxury stores vs bodegas)

I've been thinking of mass processing one-time then allowing the user to super-impose pre-made heatmaps onto thier existing heatmap.

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by cortesoft »

silisili wrote: post #7

I love the idea, but the data seems a bit off. I tested it in my little city, where I'm Setting a criteria of 15 mins by car, I'm far out in the gray. I'd have to drive a couple miles to even get in the red. It's only 6 miles away!

> It's only 6 miles away!

Six miles is like a 30 minute drive when I am

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by WiggleGuy »

silisili wrote: post #7

I love the idea, but the data seems a bit off. I tested it in my little city, where I'm Setting a criteria of 15 mins by car, I'm far out in the gray. I'd have to drive a couple miles to even get in the red. It's only 6 miles away!

Yeah, different geo analysis providers have different weightings for travel time (turns, street density, etc). It can sometimes lead to inconsistencies like this, especially if they don't use GPS and proprietary data to correct things...

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by silisili »

cortesoft wrote: post #14
silisili wrote: post #7

I love the idea, but the data seems a bit off. I tested it in my little city, where I'm Setting a criteria of 15 mins by car, I'm far out in the gray. I'd have to drive a couple miles to even get in the red. It's only 6 miles away!

> It's only 6 miles away! Six miles is like a 30 minute drive when I am

Been there, done that, hopefully not again :).

I was hoping 'little city' would have indicated, but I should have specified, there is never enough traffic here to move the estimates much. Speed limit is 35ish the whole way.

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by aantix »

I genuinely wish there was a map where you could see how many kids and their age groups are in a given neighborhood.

Our current house is great, but there aren't many kids in the neighborhood.

I understand this is sensitive information, so it probably doesn't exist.

But choosing a neighborhood with other families that are in a similar life experience is kind of hard..

Especially considering it seems that kids play outside much less, so that's less of a signal.

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by robhh »

There is another website that I've been using that provides similar functionality in terms of the heatmap: http://close.city

What I like about this one is that it can show travel times from a specific address. What would be even more useful is if it could show mixed-mode transportation times.

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by robhh »

aantix wrote: post #17

I genuinely wish there was a map where you could see how many kids and their age groups are in a given neighborhood. Our current house is great, but there aren't many kids in the neighborhood. I understand this is sensitive information, so it probably doesn't exist. But choosing a neighborhood with other families that are in a similar life experience is kind of hard.. Especially considering it seems that kids play ou…

That's exactly what I'm also looking for. I've been looking for a house in both Canada and the U.S. and for Canada there are some house search websites that show demographic census data for each neighborhood. For the U.S. I haven't seen anything comparable. I don't even know if this type of demographic data at the necessary granularity would be available publicly?
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