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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

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Post by mayneack »

DanFau wrote: post #26
codingdave wrote: post #18

I 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

Same here, the points look mostly correct for going around mountains, but it doesn't follow the road to get there https://oalley.net/map/b59

Re: Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance

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Post by sxv »

chillydawg wrote: post #50

Nice. Me and two partners had something like this in 2012. We tried to sell it to zoopla/rightmove/etc but none of them were interested. We integrated it with stuff like supermarkets, clinics, gyms, etc and allowed you to build quite complex searches with multiple locations and constraints. It was called locatable.com and is now thoroughly dead. I wish you luck monetising this somehow!

See also: Mapnificent

https://vimeo.com/16362921 https://www.mapnificent.net/

Re: Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance

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Post by entropie »

DanFau wrote: post #60
chillydawg wrote: post #50

Nice. Me and two partners had something like this in 2012. We tried to sell it to zoopla/rightmove/etc but none of them were interested. We integrated it with stuff like supermarkets, clinics, gyms, etc and allowed you to build quite complex searches with multiple locations and constraints. It was called locatable.com and is now thoroughly dead. I wish you luck monetising this somehow!

It is very interesting hat you had a similar idea, would you like to share your experience with me ? If so, can you send me an email at : contact@oalley.fr ?

Do you plan some kind of API?

Re: Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance

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Post by thebluehawk »

hateful wrote: post #68

I was interested in seeing the meetup feature, but I don't see how you can supply multiple addresses currently.

Type in one address, click compute. Type in another address, click compute. It overlays them on the same map.

Re: Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance

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Post by sammm »

chillydawg wrote: post #50

Nice. Me and two partners had something like this in 2012. We tried to sell it to zoopla/rightmove/etc but none of them were interested. We integrated it with stuff like supermarkets, clinics, gyms, etc and allowed you to build quite complex searches with multiple locations and constraints. It was called locatable.com and is now thoroughly dead. I wish you luck monetising this somehow!

Did you always have in mind that you wanted to sell it to zoopla/rightmove? What was your initial pain point that caused you to develop your idea?
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