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

#81
That's a nice idea! Especially if you plan out a weekend trip with kids and don't want to spend more than X hours driving.

1. There seems to be a problem with water https://imgur.com/a/TjyeKmV No ferries or bridges in the south

2. And there seems to be a problem with sharing (Chrome on Mac)

3. Tried to change the option to bike - and it got be redirected to Cleveland

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

#82

Does it include calculations for altitudes? Because if hikers and outdoor enthusiasts would love (and use) it.

No for the moment for biking and soon walking altitudes are not include. But I have to figure a way to take it into account.

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

#83
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I love this! I'm in Orlando, Florida which has some rather weird behavior (mostly within the state of Florida, namely going down south), but other than that it is really cool. I think the peninsular shape of Florida is throwing it off a bit.

I live in Orlando, FL as well. It looks like a 4 leaf clover on a one hour destination map. Everything looks accurate though

The one hour one is accurate for me, but if you try 3 or 4 hours it gets a bit weird.

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

#84
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Is anyone else getting simply wrong information? I put in my work address and a time of one hour. It shows two of my previous home address as being over an hour away. It takes me about 40 - 50 minutes to get to work now from my current address. It took my about an hour from the other address. Also, there needs to be a way to clear the map. Right now, I'm just overlaying times. I don't know if I'm just missing it on t…

Traffic condition or not taken into account, maybe that is why you did not get what you expected ? You can remove an area by clicking on remove icon near to it at the bottom left of the webpage (only available on desktop). I will think about adding a remove all button.

Ok, I see what happened. I had it open on a laptop screen that was 1366 x 768 so the little toolbar things didn't show up. They were below the page. When I moved it to a screen with a resolution of 1920 x 1080, they show up.

Seems like a UI bug, those things disappear when the browser window gets to be a certain height.

Also, I checked the reverse on one of the directions. So from A to B and B to A. One way shows that it is possible to do in an hour, while the reverse shows that it can't be done. While I understand that road conditions may be different in each direction in general, in this specific case, I know the conditions are the same.

There's also some weird artifacts, like parts of roads skipped. Places designated as "an hour away" that are only reachable by first driving through areas designated as unreachable in an hour.

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

#86
Very nice, but the algo seems to get confused some times. There are places you can get to in 3.5 hours from Chapel Hill NC that you can't get to in 4.0 hours.

https://oalley.net/map/b6u

And apparently, I can't get to Evanston, IL. Ferris Bueller would be disappointed.

https://oalley.net/map/b6x

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

#87
Interesting idea, but I think there's a glitch.

When I look at where I live and set 45mins, what I get is not fully covered by what I get for 50 mins. But if a place is within my 45min car ride, I would expect that place to be included to the 50min car ride zone. Am I missing something?

Screenshot: https://postimg.cc/image/vgw9mdr6z/ (blue: 45mins, red: 50mins)

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

#88
Really cool and fast visualization! Upvoted

This might help the OP (also other readers and for reference) - It might be competing with the OPs app, but Here.com has a solution for this in one of their developer APIs(https://developer.here.com/documentation/routing/topics/requ...), it returns an isoline(contour) based on multiple options(max distance, max time or max fuel consumption) similar to the OPs solution

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

#90
Cool idea, could be useful.... I did see some real estate sites using something similar to show/estimate the commute.

When I looked in my area, it looked semi-accuraete, but far from reliable when I compared to google maps: https://s22.postimg.cc/lxfvu3ag1/How_far_can_I_go_-_Oalley_f...

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