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A Better Way To Travel

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Re: A Better Way To Travel

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Hmmm. Well, the "places of interest" it suggested to me didn't look interesting, but it's nearly useful. What it really needs is just to have a "time" column estimating how far each stop is from the last one. Maybe I just grew up watching too many NSW RTA ads, but I'm a firm believer in the principle that for safety you should stop and get out of the car every two hours. So if it could suggest stops which were spaced…

That's funny you say that. The "time" situation was something we struggled with to find what the best experience would be. The questions we had were: - Do you stop 1 hour all the time when you stop at a restaurant? What if you take it to-go? - What if you stop at a stop like the World's Largest Frying Pan for just 5 minutes? Should we allow users to add custom time limits for each of the stops? - Would we be complica…

I'd only want an estimate of the travel times between destinations, not an estimate of how long I'd actually spend stopped at each (which I wouldn't attempt to estimate in advance anyway).

For me the use case is this: I want to drive from (say) San Francisco to Denver, and want to plan out a schedule which involves stopping every two hours for a break.

Re: A Better Way To Travel

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's funny you say that. The "time" situation was something we struggled with to find what the best experience would be. The questions we had were: - Do you stop 1 hour all the time when you stop at a restaurant? What if you take it to-go? - What if you stop at a stop like the World's Largest Frying Pan for just 5 minutes? Should we allow users to add custom time limits for each of the stops? - Would we be complica…

I'd only want an estimate of the travel times between destinations, not an estimate of how long I'd actually spend stopped at each (which I wouldn't attempt to estimate in advance anyway). For me the use case is this: I want to drive from (say) San Francisco to Denver, and want to plan out a schedule which involves stopping every two hours for a break.

Ahhh...got it. Thanks for clarifying that.

Re: A Better Way To Travel

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FYI, when there are multiple possible routes (e.g. the second when going from Dallas, TX to Surprise, AZ) and you choose one that isn't the default, the "Featured Stops" still show for the default.

@kodablah: We just fixed the bug -- let us know how it looks on your end. :)

Re: A Better Way To Travel

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Cool idea, but I'm not driving 10 miles out of the way to get to KFC/Taco Bell.

I don't think this should feature restaurants but rather "things to do", hiking trails, look outs, maybe specific food places (local legends, etc) but specifically things that "make up communities" (I think of like college football towns, etc)

Re: A Better Way To Travel

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Cool idea, but I'm not driving 10 miles out of the way to get to KFC/Taco Bell. I don't think this should feature restaurants but rather "things to do", hiking trails, look outs, maybe specific food places (local legends, etc) but specifically things that "make up communities" (I think of like college football towns, etc)

Totally agree. Our first pass was to pull in location information from Google Places and Foursquare, but we feel the beauty of something like this would be the unique locations like you mentioned above.

Thanks a ton for the feedback.

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