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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 chillydawg »

dazbradbury wrote: post #127
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!

We've actually had commute time search at OpenRent ( https://openrent.co.uk ) since launch (2012) - It's less prominent on our homepage now, and somewhat unloved, simply because the majority of people seem to ignore / not want it. The key to winning in the property space is definitely non-obvious, but I love to see innovative search tools popping up from time to time. Long may it continue!

Do you want to buy a much better version? :D

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 dazbradbury »

chillydawg wrote: post #151
dazbradbury wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've actually had commute time search at OpenRent ( https://openrent.co.uk ) since launch (2012) - It's less prominent on our homepage now, and somewhat unloved, simply because the majority of people seem to ignore / not want it. The key to winning in the property space is definitely non-obvious, but I love to see innovative search tools popping up from time to time. Long may it continue!

Do you want to buy a much better version? :D

Feel free to reach out (email in my profile)

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 retsci »

TimTheTinker wrote: post #150
retsci wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Basically, yes. For our day jobs we build predictive models that depend on dynamic spatial data pulls via the geoenrichment tool in various forms. Happy to discuss in more detail if interested.jonathan 'dot' wilson /at/ retailscientifics 'dot' com.

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 Bromskloss »

cridenour wrote: post #146
Bromskloss wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

OK, I was just hoping that it would have found the relevant data sources for me already.

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 rladd »

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

Here's one:

4 hours by car from San Francisco. It says you can't reach South Lake Tahoe, but Google Maps (and my experience) show that it's usually about 3 1/2 hours.

https://oalley.net/map/bd7

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 DanFau »

satsuma wrote: post #130

this map does not like michigan, at all: https://oalley.net/map/ba2 specifically the upper peninsula. it looks like it doesn't have enough data as you go towards the rural north, which doesn't shock me at all, and extrapolates from that.

Thanks for the feedback I will try to improve it with your example.
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