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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 dcision »

I like using WalkScore for this. It's designed for finding apartments, but it can give travel times by walking, transit, driving, and biking, accounting for things like where transit stops are, highway exits, rush hour traffic, etc.

https://www.walkscore.com/apartments/search/Washington-DC

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 deminature »

Cool idea, but it's quoting 15 minutes to get from Brooklyn, NY to New Jersey cross-town via Manhattan, while the time quoted via Google Maps including traffic conditions is approximately 1hr, which sounds more reasonable. Would be good to integrate some kind of traffic awareness to get more accurate estimates. Excited to see how this develops.

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 bethling »

sveme wrote: post #14

Really nice tool - is it using traffic conditions right now? To elaborate, I first entered 4 hrs from Munich, then added another half an hour to it and got a counterintuitive map (see oalley.net/map/b3y): I would have expected the 4:30 hrs map to just extend a little further than the 4 hrs map, but in reality, some parts that I could have reached in 4 hrs are not reachable in 4:30 hrs. Any idea what's going on? It se…

Without considering traffic it's not overly useful for me. When I put in my address, some of the places it tells me I could reach in an hour, I'd be lucky to reach in 2 most times of the day.

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 amerkhalid »

This is really awesome. A few years ago, my friends would argue about the a good spot for everyone to meet at.

Idea for another project: (I tried it too but gave up quickly) Since now my friends are all over the US and the world, we argue about the best city to meet at. It would be awesome if there is a website that takes your and your friend’s budget, current city, and visa requirements and figure out the best place to fly to for everyone.

Of course, this will be easy to monetize if you can get referral commission from airlines and hotels.

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 dghughes »

allannienhuis wrote: post #47
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…

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…

Same, I live on an island it it showed multiple routes crossing the strait where no ferry or bridge exists.

Edit: but it did work if I lowered the time. Interesting work though.

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