I want to live where I can walk to a grocery store, there is little traffic, crime and detritus, balancing affordability.
This doesn't cover any of that.
Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences
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#62It only cares about distance by car, walk, etc?
I would like to have more criterias
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#63I want to live where I can walk to a grocery store, there is little traffic, crime and detritus, balancing affordability. This doesn't cover any of that.
Why even comment then?
OP explained up front what the tool does
Its like walking by a poster advertising guitar lessons and exclaiming out loud "I don't want guitar lessons!"
Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences
#64I want to live where I can walk to a grocery store, there is little traffic, crime and detritus, balancing affordability. This doesn't cover any of that.
I thought about using Google maps street view photos for something like that, get all the photos for a city, and then classify how much trash is visible, and also calculate how many people there are and what they're doing.
My idea, at least from living in New York, is that if there are a medium amount of people walking around, and not that many people just sitting there or leaning against a building, and there isn't a ton of trash visible, then it is probably a pretty good neighborhood.
If there is nobody, or a ton of people, or if the people aren't mobile, or if there's a lot of trash, then it is probably not a neighborhood that I would like.
You could probably also use business types for that. Like, I would not want to live in a neighborhood that has a ton of pawn shops or churches in it.
Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences
#65This is cool but I don't think it fits my use case.. Seems like I have to pick criteria that have exact venues.. I want to pick abstract things like "walking distance from grocery", "biking distance from climbing gym" "1 hour drive to national park"
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.
This doesn't seem to work very well. Searching for "grocery store" netted me a set of 22 locations spread across the entire country.
Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences
#66Great idea, looking forward to someone implementing it!
Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences
#67See also, Hood Maps [0], a crowdsourced map of annotations of people's opinions on particular areas in a city. It's by Pieter Levels who built Nomad List, PhotoAI, etc, you might know him if you're in the indie hacker and startup space at all.
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#68I want to live where I can walk to a grocery store, there is little traffic, crime and detritus, balancing affordability. This doesn't cover any of that.
Why even comment then? OP explained up front what the tool does Its like walking by a poster advertising guitar lessons and exclaiming out loud "I don't want guitar lessons!"
Because I was induced to click by the title of the post:
"Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences"
I'm providing feedback that what is promised is not delivered. Maybe it's the op's preferences, but it's not my preferences.
It's more like a poster offering guitar lessons, and the person will only tell you that a guitar has five strings.
Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This doesn't seem to work very well. Searching for "grocery store" netted me a set of 22 locations spread across the entire country.
Ah, you probably tried to search before the website got your location (so it couldn't bias your search).
I'll make this an impossible state, thanks for bringing this up.
Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences
#70An 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.