Does not do well near Lake Erie: https://oalley.net/map/b5y
Thanks for the feedback I will try to improve it.
Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
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Re: Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
#162This is awesome, I've been wanting something like this for road trips. Please make it more than 8 hours, though. I can barely get out of Texas..
I did not think of that issue. What would be a good max trip time for you ?
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#163I like this, but I really want something for flight times. I'm always curious just where I could get to for a weekend trip and a 6-8 hour flight.
Great idea of a feature to be added. But I am not sure flight data are easy to get.
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#164Hey man, nice app! I showed this to my friends, and then discovered that flights are currently not supported. Could you please support flight times as well? That would be killer. Thanks in advance.
I will think about it, I need to get data but that would be awesome.
Re: Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
#165Cool idea, could be useful.... I did see some real estate sites using something similar to show/estimate the commute. When I looked in my area, it looked semi-accuraete, but far from reliable when I compared to google maps: https://s22.postimg.cc/lxfvu3ag1/How_far_can_I_go_-_Oalley_f...
Thanks for the great feedback. I will try to find a solution
Re: Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
#166Interesting idea, but I think there's a glitch. When I look at where I live and set 45mins, what I get is not fully covered by what I get for 50 mins. But if a place is within my 45min car ride, I would expect that place to be included to the 50min car ride zone. Am I missing something? Screenshot: https://postimg.cc/image/vgw9mdr6z/ (blue: 45mins, red: 50mins)
No you are not missing something, I have to improve the algorithm to avoid this kind of issue.
Re: Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
#167Hey DanFau, if you are interested in creating some viral marketing... you can update/fix this popular map of the closest baseball stadium to any location in the United States: https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/7zil08/map_of_the...
Good Idea for doing viral marketing :)
Re: Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
#168Does it take into account time of day? It's off a little for my area, just outside of Toronto. Putting in a 2 hour window comes up short east/west (by about 25%) but is relatively accurate North of here. Problem is knowing the speed of various highways at various times.
It does not take traffic information, so depending on the time of the day it may not reflect the exact area.
If that's the case then it's off globally. The numbers would have actually been marginally more accurate if it was factoring in traffic, but if it's not then it's off by quite a bit.
Re: Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
#169Would be interesting to run a ton of queries in a gridlike fashion, and use the resulting polygons' areas to graph a map of mobility.
What is a mobility map ?
I don't know, I guess I could tautologically define it as a map that shows how far you can get from every point in a given timeframe.
Sort of a "heatmap" of distance.
That way you could discover the most "well-connected" locations within a city, and even potentially use that data for urban planning.