What you get if you live in the boonies: "There aren't enough streets in this area. Please select somewhere else"
Yeah. Someone did ask today to be able to increase the circle's radius for cases like this
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#42Would be cool if bars, restaurants and tourist attractions were added! But a fun little geoguessr like romp either way.
Thanks for the feedback! Will look into it
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#43I failed completely because in my selection (US: Boston/Cambridge) there are multiple streets with the same name like Broadway and First Street, and I always picked the wrong one.
If they have exactly the same name then you should've gotten points. If so, please give me an example and I'll fix it. If it was "Roxbury St" versus "Roxbury Ave", then you're just unlucky sorry
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great feedback, thanks. I also considered factoring in street length for difficulty modes. My dad has gotten a perfect score a couple of times. Cork isn't huge but that's still very difficult. He's a human map
There's a tiny distance between this game and actual mnemonic techniques used by world champion memory athletes. Method of loci capitalizes on the fact that the brain stores memories using a map like structure, as a result of grid cells. If you can, get a cabby in London with "The Knowledge" to do a session. Such cabbies are among elite humans, of a handful of disciplines known to alter the structure of their brains…
Fascinating, thanks! I knew of memory palaces but I hadn't considered taxi drivers! Can't wait to tell my dad someone on the internet said he's a genius :P
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks. It's a third-party server-side API I use so it would be just based on your ID address I think. You can go here to see where it thinks you are: https://cloudflare-pages-geolocation.pages.dev . However, this can change if you reload it minutes apart or if you turn on/off WiFi, etc. It's not 100% reliable
I was also started in Cork in-game, while this link showed me the right location. I think your integration may have a bug?
Same here. Cloudflare link gives me a pin accurate to a couple of hundred metres, the link in the submission takes me to Ireland.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was also started in Cork in-game, while this link showed me the right location. I think your integration may have a bug?
Maybe. It uses the geolocation information Cloudflare provides. In general, it isn't extremely accurate and it doesn't always return the same location, so this doesn't surprise me too much. If it consistently works in one and not the other (at the same point in time), then the only difference I can think of is that Back Of Your Hand uses their "edge handlers" / "functions" and I made that other URL with their "worker…
Submitted lino includes hardcoded location, maybe that's what's tripping people up?
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#47Title: s/area/street names/
Was already wondering how this game was going to work, like geoguessr maybe?
Still fun though! Just not what I expected from the name.
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#48This would be actually helpful practice for first responders. FDs/EMS in my area are expected to memorize all of the streets in their region, and I imagine it’s the same for PDs too. Another layer on top of it would be to quiz you on how to get from a fixed point (the station) to a random intersection. For the US, you could also provide a random block on a street rather than an intersection.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe. It uses the geolocation information Cloudflare provides. In general, it isn't extremely accurate and it doesn't always return the same location, so this doesn't surprise me too much. If it consistently works in one and not the other (at the same point in time), then the only difference I can think of is that Back Of Your Hand uses their "edge handlers" / "functions" and I made that other URL with their "worker…
Submitted lino includes hardcoded location, maybe that's what's tripping people up?
That's it!
I could've sworn I made sure not to include it when submitting. It does redirect to that if there's no location found so maybe HN updated the link to the redirect destination?
I'm pushing a change now to ignore this specific lat-lng combination and fallback to geolocation
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks. It's a third-party server-side API I use so it would be just based on your ID address I think. You can go here to see where it thinks you are: https://cloudflare-pages-geolocation.pages.dev . However, this can change if you reload it minutes apart or if you turn on/off WiFi, etc. It's not 100% reliable
I was also started in Cork in-game, while this link showed me the right location. I think your integration may have a bug?
Try again please, it should work. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30734844 for why