Does 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.
Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
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#72Cool, but now I would love to see a map which is colored by the total are (km^2) reachable in a given time.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Along the same lines, it doesn't seem to account for ferry routes when there is a lot of water in your area. https://oalley.net/map/b4y Sharing only so the developer has another test case :) The three points on the right are only reachable by ferry, so add approximately 1.5 hrs to the travel time. Plus the one at the bottom right would require the driver to pass through the downtown core of the city of Vancouver; eve…
It actually does seem to account for ferry routes. I plugged a location in Seattle in and the surface it draws juts across the water to roughly where the ferries dock. Maybe there just isn't a data source for where you're at yet?
The more I am seeing examples, and looking at the terrain, it seems like the problem is that it is only acting on the endpoints, and assuming that the map should simply extend from starting point to ending point, regardless of what is between them. But in the truth, it is quite possible to have an endpoint that cannot be accessed in a straight line because you must circle around a mountain, etc. These maps would need to account for those scenarios.
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#74great touch: changing the time keeps the old contour and plots a new one in a different color automatically.
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#75Re: Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
#76Does not do well near Lake Erie:
https://oalley.net/map/b5y
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#77Does 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.
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#78It would be interesting if in addition to time or distance one could search by limits of energy.
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#79I love this. I immediately wanted to see how two cities overlap, but found the UI a bit difficult for this. I want to be able to see where's the best place for me and my friend in another city to meet up for lunch or something. I wish you could search a city and then edit the time you enter until you see two blobs overlapping....bingo lunch spot.
https://d.pr/i/9DbVel
Unfortunately, to do this, I just had to keep entering new searches with incrementally new times. Anyways, just a feature idea. Nice work.
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#80I like the idea - but it isn't working well for my location, at the base of a canyon in Utah, with mountains on 3 sides of me and a big lake on the 4th. It looks like it knows that there are canyons and roads and obstacles that need to be accounted for, but the spikes jutting out from my location don't follow the roads or terrain. FWIW, the site at: https://maps.openrouteservice.org/reach also fails to compute accura…
Seems you are a good test case. Could you share your map with the "share this map" button ? So I can figure it out
https://oalley.net/map/b6j is another pretty poor one. edinburgh to Anstruther is probably closer to 2 hours. North Berwick is more than achieveable in an hour. Callander (in the north west of the map) is closer to 90m.