I love this!
One question, though: how are you calculating distance from a street? Here, I thought I was pretty spot on for a street, but it still said I was 56m away.
Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/L4usV6W
Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area
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#172Here is a different quiz about what you know about your local area. Pretty interesting. https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-big-here-quiz/
I do after school daycare and this is going to be great for my middle schoolers. Not that I dont need to work on all of these.
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#173Crashes iOS safari when moving the map ~40 miles.
Seems like a great game though, going to check it out in my desktop later.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
The circle is a bit large as in larger than a single neighborhood for my city. I feel like the game is useful when it asks you how well you know a single neighborhood. It’s less interesting when it asks you how well you know 2.5 neighborhoods.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm considering adding difficulty modes or a way to change the radius. I'd rather that people wouldn't get a perfect score too easily though
I think a difference with Wordle is that we're playing different neighborhoods and different streets every day, so a "cheated" perfect score would have little meaning. And I think when people share their Wordle results, it's often a "wow, I lucked out on that guess" or "phew, almost didn't get it".
Perhaps the ability to choose the sample area could be based on the zoom level and hidden under a settings cog?
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
OK I'm done with fighting fires for now and can answer that last question. Cloudflare offer "functions" and "workers", they're like functions that run on the edge CDN nodes. These functions receive geolocation information via a function argument. So I've a function that intercepts requests to the app, grabs the geolocation information, and rewrites the URL (inserting the coordinates e.g. /lat,lng). I go into more det…
Those "annoying prompts" are there for a reason. How do you justify ignoring the users' wishes with regards to accessing personally identifiable information?
Also, why WebGL?
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#176Rural players be like.
Find road 27 W
Find road 59 S
Find road 26 W
Find road 59 S
Find road 58 S
Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area
#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
OK I'm done with fighting fires for now and can answer that last question. Cloudflare offer "functions" and "workers", they're like functions that run on the edge CDN nodes. These functions receive geolocation information via a function argument. So I've a function that intercepts requests to the app, grabs the geolocation information, and rewrites the URL (inserting the coordinates e.g. /lat,lng). I go into more det…
Those "annoying prompts" are there for a reason. How do you justify ignoring the users' wishes with regards to accessing personally identifiable information? Also, why WebGL?
>Those "annoying prompts" are there for a reason
Yep, but not worth ruining the UX for marginally better geolocation in my case.
> How do you justify ignoring the users' wishes with regards to accessing personally identifiable information?
I don't know what you're referring to. If you're suggesting I'd prefer that apps & sites could access our location without asking, you're mistaken.
>Also, why WebGL?
The no-streets OSM raster map tiles were discontinued and I had to switch to custom Maptiler layers. They don't allow raster map tiles on the free plan.
Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area
#178I love this! One question, though: how are you calculating distance from a street? Here, I thought I was pretty spot on for a street, but it still said I was 56m away. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/L4usV6W
On my map it seemed like the road consisted of a few points, rather than the points plus lines between them (or however it's described). Selecting intersections (maybe bends?) lowered the distance.
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#179Great game! The one "unfair" question I got was "Treppe Tiefgarage" which means "Stairs to the underground parking garage". Difficult to figure out how to filter these out in the general case.
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#180Hi 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.…
this is an awesome idea!
only bit of feedback I have is that the street names may need some cleanup / filtering of some kind.
I picked a starting location in downtown Seattle (47.60882,-122.33087) and was told to locate "escalator"...it seems to have picked the escalator to the Pioneer Square light rail station as a "street" to be located.