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Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by cvwright »

IncreasePosts wrote: post #64
bagels wrote: post #61

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.

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…

Unfortunately if you built this, half of the world would publicly condemn you as a terrible horrible person.

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by ignormies »

I currently commute by train _and_ bike, but this only lets me filter by one or another, unfortunately.

This seems to be a common problem with navigation systems in general. It's easy to get walking+transit directions, but nigh impossible to get bike+transit, even though all the buses and trains near me let me bring a bike onboard.

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by losvedir »

This is incredible! I've been looking at new houses for a while now, trying to balance living next to a park, walking distance to elementary school and a grocery store, and within a driving distance to my wife's work. I'm having a blast playing around with it right now and scoping out the potential neighborhoods that would be best.

One feature request: when you do "Search Nearby" (e.g. I did "elementary school") it found a _lot_ of schools, like 50 or more, well out side the city I was interested in. But short of adding them all and going through one by one and deleting them, is there a way to add just the matches in the city I put in the top-right corner? Maybe adjust the search radius or something? Or in the search results preview it gives you, a button to just select the few you want to add.

edit: oh, and another feature request. I'd love to accordion/collapse my criteria. Scrolling past my 40 parks to edit the bottom criterion is tedious.

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by oa335 »

Great idea! But unfortunately the site was too hard for me to use on mobile (iOS, Brave browser). I was unable to set the location - when I tried to set the location, the screen would randomly zoom in and I couldn’t scroll through the addresses.

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by [deleted] »

wilted-iris wrote: post #55
drooby wrote: post #40

This 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"

Same, and I add one even more amorphous criteria, 'not directly next to noise pollution like an airport or highways.'

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Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by staindk »

This is cool!

It seems nobody has asked/suggested this so I'll do it - I would love to specify time of day/traffic conditions during which to determine time taken to travel.

In the next year or two we'll be looking to move and since we work on the southern side of the city, living out to the north wouldn't work due to traffic through the city.

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by tobr »

I’ve been looking for something like this. On my phone it’s rather unclear how to interpret the heat map though. There’s some kind of broken tooltip. What do the colors represent? It looks like it would be the distance to the closest point rather than to all the points?

How do you compute the heat map? Thousands of API requests from various points?

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by ajb »

ignormies wrote: post #82

I currently commute by train _and_ bike, but this only lets me filter by one or another, unfortunately. This seems to be a common problem with navigation systems in general. It's easy to get walking+transit directions, but nigh impossible to get bike+transit, even though all the buses and trains near me let me bring a bike onboard.

Citymapper will do it. Haven't personally tried the results

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by the_real_cher »

WiggleGuy wrote: post #57
anigbrowl wrote: post #53

I wanted to do this with a city I don't currently live in, but every time I did searches on specific locations it went for the nearest (bad) match to my current geographic location. It'd be nice to generalize it. I do like that you used OSM rather than Google maps.

This is possible! I should probably make the UX better. When you're on the heatmap page (or the distance matrix page), look at the top right of the screen. It shows you where it's basing its searches on, and you can override that bias with any location you like. You only need to update it once per session - all pages and components will be updated

On the UX it would be helpful to add an option to delete all places.

It added 50 grocery stores with a "nearby places" search and inhad to refresh the page to start a new search instead of spending time clicking those X's.

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