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- option to select individual results of "Search nearby places" or select top N closest result to your location
- collapsible criteria on the edit/view pages
- automatically name name untitled heatmaps. I have a ton of "Untitled Heatmaps" in my history which I forgot to name
- combine the edit/view pages - just have an edit page with a big "Generate" button so you can still edit criteria after heatmap generation
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Citymapper will do it. Haven't personally tried the results
Yeah the "mixed" navigation option sometimes provides it, but with many caveats: - it never suggests bike+bus, only bike+train - it will only ever try to put the biking on one end of the train ride, never both. I guess it assumes I'd be parking the bike at the station, not bringing it on board - you can't actually "start" the navigation for some reason. It will just show the route overview
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Hello! To echo what loxias said, it is possible to make queries like this on the heatmap. You can use the "Search Nearby places" button - this takes in more general queries (like cafe, gym, walmart, etc) and gives you back a bunch of venues that fit that search.
I don't really understand what the search nearby places button is doing. I think the solution would be to allow some sort of OR operator (which seems straightforward), or conditions the act on generic queries (which seems more difficult). For example say you live in NYC and want some nice green space near you. Choosing a single park is too narrow and choosing all parks is too broad. So you should be able to say e.g.…
> Central Park OR Prospect Park OR Brooklyn Bridge Park OR Fort Greene Park
You can do this, actually. I kinda explain that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976053
The heatmap supports both AND and OR clauses
The second one (acrage, stars, etc) is harder, you're right.
The "Search nearby places" is really meant to be a convenience feature to fill your OR clauses. It works better for certain types of things. Like, sure, all parks is too broad because not all parks are equal. But use it for something like all Targets (the shopping chain) or something, and its more useful, since those are, more or less, all equal.
I'm still thinking of other convenience features for places that have more nuance, like parks.
An easy way to make this great tool twice as good: Allow inverted selections. I don't want to live near sketchy storefronts, and neither do other people less honest than myself.
The two-ended Min/Max sliders of the Dynamic HomeFinder and the SimCity Frob-O-Matic Dynamic Zone Filter allow you to effectively invert selections by dragging the Max end all the way to the right, and then adjusting the Min end, since the filter passes everything between Min and Max. Or you can drag the whole slider range by the middle to adjust Min and Max at once, exploring a fixed width interval of the values. ht…