Might be better to base this off of buisnesses and landmarks in your area. I know mine quite well but fucked if I know where some tiny side street with a common name is. Maybe that works better with American style suburbs and grid cities, but in Europe it's pretty difficult if you are not specifically a delivery person or taxi driver.
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#152This game was fun, but it’s way too easy. I suspect 90% of players score over 90 points. Do you have any data on this?
Damn, I should've tracked that. Judging by the responses here today, it's both too easy and too difficult simultaneously :/
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#153This is wonderful. I used to be a Lyft driver, and something that seemed would be interesting at the time is a system, not unlike this one, for learning a city. In London to drive a cab you must do this super difficult test, and this means cabbies are very knowledgeable about the city. This is something in that vein, love it.
Reminds me of this study [1] from awhile back where brain scans at University College London revealed that “part of the hippocampus grew larger as the taxi drivers spent more time in the job”.
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#154This is great. Works very well for Helsinki.
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#155How much does this cost to run with the whole Mapbox thing?
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#156Fun "game", but asking you to identify one of the main roads, vs some minor, three-house road makes it very luck-based. Also, I clicked directly on the (correct) road, and it took the points away, because the hitbox was off https://i.imgur.com/yKONWUk.png (Topniška ulica, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
OK I can try to come up with better randomization.
About the road, this is due to a discrepancy in the OpenStreetMap data and the actual map tiles I'm using. Hmm. Not sure what I could here. Maybe I can be more lenient when you're two pieces of the same road
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#157This is great. Works very well for Helsinki.
I've actually heard that before! Kiitos :)
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#158Great game!
One time I got a the same avenue twice in the same round, but I don't know if it was a bug in the game or if the data is duplicated in OpenStreetMap.
Still great, though.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
First of all: it's really cool and fun! Congratulations! As a small feedback: adjustable radius would be more fun. For example in the town were I had my childhood, this area is too big and takes other neighbourhood/cities that I don't know, but for where I live now it fits great. Again, nice job and congratulations for making it!
Thank you :) This has come up so much. I'll be adding it, thanks!
Another thing is that it seems you are sampling with replacement. I placed a circle in a rural area (where I grew up) and in one round I got the same street for 3/5 of the selections (and there were 10+ streets within the radius).
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#160Looks great, but I'm curious about the performance of this.
Does it pull vector tiles? Did you build those vector tiles yourself?
Seems like your server has a hard time...
I picked my neighborhood since your app located me 1000km away from where I live.
I started the thing and it backed away from the former incorrect coordinates.