Show HN: A map that shows you how far you can go for a given time or distance • Hacker News Board

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 lucb1e » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 10:31 PM UTC

barrkel wrote: post #112

ggggtez wrote: post #100

FYI: 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.

Until traffic drops off and you can correlate usernames (someone tweeting/commenting/whatever about this service) with a narrow selection of maps that were recently made.

Or even under HN traffic, if someone mentions to have used it, you now have a few hundred or maybe thousand potential locations for a username instead of the entire western world (and even that is an assumption that could be wrong). If you're serious about this, and if the username seriously tries to stay anonymous (as a bunch of people here do), this does have an impact.

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 zone411 » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 11:00 PM UTC

bodyloss wrote: post #138

zone411 wrote: post #133

My company created something quite similar a few years ago. We also have a tool http://www.city-data.com/MeetingPlace/ that allows you to find an optimized meeting place for two or more people based on the chosen mode of transportation (car, bike, foot).

I've been looking for a tool like this for ages! Are there plans to support the UK? All that happens is I get the "Something went wrong" message currently.

Thanks for the input! I'll look into this.

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 camikazeg » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 11:02 PM UTC

I've used a service from Free Map Tools for years that did this exact same thing. It was very accurate, but appears to have recently been taken down.

https://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-can-i-travel.htm

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 nemoniac » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 11:17 PM UTC

I really wanted to like this but the site is totally unusable. Damn shame.

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 karthikb » Fri, Aug 03, 2018, 11:33 PM UTC

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!

Would be super helpful for corporate offices. Input a list of employee home addresses and find commute time isoclines, or locations which minimize mean or median commute.

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 cridenour » Sat, Aug 04, 2018, 1:36 AM UTC

Bromskloss wrote: post #53

cridenour wrote: post #48

If you want to build your own with OpenStreetMap data and traffic included, checkout OpenTripPlanner. http://docs.opentripplanner.org/en/latest/Intermediate-Tutor...

Does it include connections to data sources for traffic, bus departures, and such, or do you have to provide them yourself?

You have to provide them yourself but it accepts any format I've thrown at it in the past.

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 cridenour » Sat, Aug 04, 2018, 1:37 AM UTC

n4r9 wrote: post #57

cridenour wrote: post #48

If you want to build your own with OpenStreetMap data and traffic included, checkout OpenTripPlanner. http://docs.opentripplanner.org/en/latest/Intermediate-Tutor...

What do you mean by "traffic included"? From googling around it looks like OTP has some support for OpenTraffic data, i.e. static average travel times rather live updated traffic.

Ah yes, I meant historical rather than live.

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 bhasi » Sat, Aug 04, 2018, 1:48 AM UTC

Hey man, nice app! I showed this to my friends, and then discovered that flights are currently not supported. Could you please support flight times as well? That would be killer. Thanks in advance.

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 sreggiani » Sat, Aug 04, 2018, 2:09 AM UTC

Putain ça vient de Toulouse con!

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 TimTheTinker » Sat, Aug 04, 2018, 4:03 AM UTC

retsci wrote: post #136

TimTheTinker wrote: post #134

This is almost identical to a drive-time site buffer in Esri Business Analyst (I’m a dev on that team). The next step is to create reports and infographics based on demographic data. Screenshot: https://pasteboard.co/HxvXrzN.png

Our product utilizes this in a web based platform with reports/demographics available: https://drivetimemapper.com/ Free demo!

Wait, so you guys provide a service that piggybacks on ArcGIS Online’s Geoenrichmemt services? Wow.