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Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area

#81

No map loading for me - too much traffic? Safari on iOS.

Yes but it should be back now?

My hosting provider (Cloudflare Pages) seem to have a limit on "functions" I cannot increase. I've worked around it for now but it might open at Cork for everyone. If so, you can zoom out and tap the map to select somewhere else.

Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area

#82

map not loading for me. latest version of chrome. have tried incognito

Yes but it should be back now? My hosting provider (Cloudflare Pages) seem to have a limit on "functions" I cannot increase. I've worked around it for now but it might open at Cork for everyone. If so, you can zoom out and tap the map to select somewhere else.

Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area

#83

Hi HN, I made Back Of Your Hand, a map-based game where you're given random street names and you have to locate them on the map. You can play solo or compete with friends on other devices. I made it for my dad as a Christmas present. It also gave me an opportunity to learn about geocoding, etc. Tech: serverless, Leaflet, Turf, Svelte, TypeScript, Cloudflare pages. I tried to use as many open / free tools as I could.…

I'm only getting a blank background on Firefox, both Android and desktop. Edge too, is the service just down?

Yes but it should be back now?

My hosting provider (Cloudflare Pages) seem to have a limit on "functions" I cannot increase. I've worked around it for now but it might open at Cork for everyone. If so, you can zoom out and tap the map to select somewhere else.

Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area

#84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yeah, this is killing me. NORTH WOODWARD AVE turns into WOODWARD AVE turns into NORTH WOODWARD AVE turns into SOUTH WOODWARD AVE turns into WOODWARD AVE turns into NORTH WOODWARD AVE completely at random, and none of them count as each other. And sometimes multiple parts of the same road show up in the same quiz. I know this is fundamentally an OSM data problem, but it's also your UX problem now. (N 42.5, W 83.17 if…

> quizzing me on park trails

I got one of those too, but I liked it. Nice to explore the major bike/pedestrian paths.

I guess it could be an option.

Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area

#85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm only getting a blank background on Firefox, both Android and desktop. Edge too, is the service just down?

Yes but it should be back now? My hosting provider (Cloudflare Pages) seem to have a limit on "functions" I cannot increase. I've worked around it for now but it might open at Cork for everyone. If so, you can zoom out and tap the map to select somewhere else.

I put my town's coordinates in manually and it's still blank, and I don't see anything zooming all the way out.

What do you mean by functions? I would just request location with javascript and use Google geolocation as a fallback.

Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area

#86

No map loading for me - too much traffic? Safari on iOS.

Yes but it should be back now? My hosting provider (Cloudflare Pages) seem to have a limit on "functions" I cannot increase. I've worked around it for now but it might open at Cork for everyone. If so, you can zoom out and tap the map to select somewhere else.

Still no map for me.

Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area

#87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes but it should be back now? My hosting provider (Cloudflare Pages) seem to have a limit on "functions" I cannot increase. I've worked around it for now but it might open at Cork for everyone. If so, you can zoom out and tap the map to select somewhere else.

Still no map for me.

Thanks. I've confirmed it's back but then somehow Cloudflare started served an old deploy again for some time and now it's back working again. I didn't change anything. Ugh.

https://5fee8b00.backofyourhand.pages.dev/ may be more reliable but who knows.

As for the original issue, Cloudflare has a 100k function invocation limit and I can't even pay to increase it.

Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area

#88
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I basically failed because almost all of the selections were random tiny roads in subdivisions (thanks Atlanta sprawl). Got all the roads with thru traffic though!

Oooo. Longer roads should score more points because they're more important / you're a bigger idiot for missing them? ;)

Same area. There's a hundred or more tiny subdivision roads for every major road. It would be better to omit roads under a certain length entirely since it's not reasonable for someone to know all the roads in a subdivision they never have a reason to visit.
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