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Re: Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

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Post by moontear »

Works. Beautiful. Also works internationally. Good job!

It would be splendid if you used 24 hour format per default instead of AM/PM or at least let me choose. You correctly figured out I am at UTC+01:00, but we don't use AM/PM here.

I'm not perfectly happy with the colors in the final map. You use blue to represent right, yellowish for left and dark gray for "no sun". Your suggestion on top for preferred seating uses red. To me the preferred seating color should correspond with the left/right colors.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

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Post by linuxalien »

This is the kind of tool I like. Not sure what kind of edge case I've hit though. Trip from Perth to Exmouth in Western Australia, leaving 1:13pm UTC+1000, ends up suggesting the wrong side.

Preferred Seating : Left Side 1250 km / 776.41 miles :14h 40m 33s Sun Exposure Data Left Side: 49.62% Right Side: 7.94% No Sun: 42.44%

Re: Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

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Post by pknerd »

Titan2189 wrote: post #107
pknerd wrote: post #76

UI is confusing. As someone who is living in Pakistan, I do not know what to put on location fields.

What's your suggestion then? How do Pakistanis tell Google maps where they want to go from and to?

My bad. I thought it does not work internationally but it does!

Re: Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

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Post by jack_riminton »

robertlagrant wrote: post #75
jack_riminton wrote: post #17

I entirely expect your motives to be non-commercial but I reckon there will be bus or train ticket sites who would pay for this. Which would also allow more people to benefit from it. Well done on a great job

Sunny-side pricing!

Or the opposite!

Re: Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

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Post by emsixteen »

saevarom wrote: post #118

Seems to work, I'm located in Reykjavik Iceland and the website tells me there is no sun :) Left Side: 0.00% Right Side: 0.00% No Sun: 100.00%

I get the same result[1], and I'd have expected that if I still live in the Arctic, but I'm a lot further south and see the sun out the window right now.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/92jfFGy.png

Re: Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

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Post by Symbiote »

moontear wrote: post #131

Works. Beautiful. Also works internationally. Good job! It would be splendid if you used 24 hour format per default instead of AM/PM or at least let me choose. You correctly figured out I am at UTC+01:00, but we don't use AM/PM here. I'm not perfectly happy with the colors in the final map. You use blue to represent right, yellowish for left and dark gray for "no sun". Your suggestion on top for preferred seating use…

It says 13:31 for me, and it's just a element. Is your browser using an AM/PM locale?

Re: Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

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Post by reddalo »

hawski wrote: post #58
dn3500 wrote: post #8

I recently took a bus over the Andes and was congratulating myself on choosing a seat on the shady side. Then I realized that in the southern hemisphere the sun is in the north and I had outsmarted myself.

It is funny in my language as we have the same word for both noon and south.

Also in Italian. "Mezzogiorno" both means noon and south.
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