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How much does this cost to run with the whole Mapbox thing?
I use Mapbox and Maptiler on the free plan. They both have limits but I haven't ran into them yet. And I've seen a LOT of page views today.
There are probably features I don't use that trigger limits more easily though.
Looks 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.
The first iteration was very fast. I got 100 in every category in Lighthouse (but that doesn't cover everything of course). It used OSM raster map tiles. The no-streets map tiles were discontinued so I had to switch to using custom Maptiler map layers via Mapbox. Still more than fast enough IMO. I aggressively cache the Overpass data per area.
Then I migrated to Cloudflare pages to access their geolocation information via an edge handler. That slowed down visits without a LatLng in the URL because it does a couple of redirects.
Then today I had to fight multiple fires due to traffic and usage limits. I managed to workaround all the issues as they arose but the routing of page loads isn't ideal right now. Cloudflare are raising limits for me at midnight UTC so I'll be moving back to the faster setup again.
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Thanks for the feedback. I'm considering adding difficulty modes or a way to change the radius. I'd rather that people wouldn't get a perfect score too easily though
I think it would be useful to use actual boundries of villages or neighbourhoods instead of circles. Not sure how difficult that is. (the required data is in OSM, at least in germany)
Great 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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I noticed that some areas pop up more than others. Is there like a difficulty score that you are calculating in the back? Making it easier is definitely a challenge, I’d guess. The major landmarks simply matter more. But, I LOVED playing round after round in Amsterdam, learning more about a city I definitely don’t know like the back of my hand! MCQs for marked areas would be nice— guessing the name of a place given a…
Nah it's pretty dumb right now. All I do is filter out some names like "Alley" and join same-named streets. I don't want to make it too easy but I have gotten a lot of feedback today about difficulty (area boundary/radius, street length, etc) so I'll make some changes and hopefully I can keep going in the right direction. Another idea I had was to add hints like maybe you could have a special button you could press o…
Again, it’s super.
Here is a different quiz about what you know about your local area. Pretty interesting. https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-big-here-quiz/
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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).
Hi HN, I made Back Of Your Hand, a map-based game where you're given random street names and you have to locate them on the map. You can play solo or compete with friends on other devices. I made it for my dad as a Christmas present. It also gave me an opportunity to learn about geocoding, etc. Tech: serverless, Leaflet, Turf, Svelte, TypeScript, Cloudflare pages. I tried to use as many open / free tools as I could.…