I thought the IP based geolocation was creepy accurate. Looks like just a coincidence: I arrived in Toulouse 3 hours ago!
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
#112FYI: All shared maps are trivially enumerable. Probably don't use your home address. https://oalley.net/map/b4x https://oalley.net/map/b4y https://oalley.net/map/b4z
Every home has somebody living there.
Unless you can connect it to an identity, and have a particular reason to target that identity, it's not much of a reveal.
Re: Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
#113Nice. 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!
Would have been very useful to me back when I was buying my house. But I'm not sure that people like Rightmove etc. aren't on the side of property sales agents, who prefer customers that have less information. Rightmove is just a lead generation tool for an estate agent. Once someone walks in the door, they can bring them around to two or three properties, rather than just the property they saw on the website. Information about how hard it is to get to work, to a supermarket, etc. are just reasons not to buy.
Re: Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
#114I 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…
It also seems to be missing (or hugely over-estimating the travel time over) some bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area. oalley.net/map/b8h, for instance, has a ton of weird sectors.
Re: Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
#115Very neat. Seems quite accurate for my area. The least accurate example I found was a spot that takes 25 minutes listed as taking 35 (confirmed on Google Maps). Topographic barriers and traffic seem to be the big problems for other posters, and neither are a huge factor in my part of Western Mass.
Re: Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
#116From my perspective it looks like it doesn't account for traffic, is that generally the case or is it just because I'm using it at 11am PST on west coast locations?
Re: Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
#117Would be interesting to run a ton of queries in a gridlike fashion, and use the resulting polygons' areas to graph a map of mobility.
Re: Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there really risk here? The existence of one's address is pretty public
The existence of an address is public. The relationship between an address and a hacker news account is typically not public. Providing this link can make doxxing significantly easier.
Sure, but the maps being enumerable doesn't reveal a relationship between an address and a specific Hacker News account. The maps being enumerable doesn't seem to be noteworthy.
Re: Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
#119From my perspective it looks like it doesn't account for traffic, is that generally the case or is it just because I'm using it at 11am PST on west coast locations?
totally agree - perhaps it should should just have two "blobs" one for best case and another for worst cast traffic wise...
Re: Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance
#120I 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
Another interesting case is going from Key West out. Naples, FL is shown inside the 3 hour range, 110 miles apart as the crow flies. I'm not sure whether it's finding a ferry route, or whether ferries reasonably go that speed, but I thought the results were interesting.