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Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling
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#143what is the tech stack you used to build this site?
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#144Really nice idea and it works to an extent, but it doesn’t seem to use the bus routes — just sent me the quickest route via the motorway. Not sure how much of a ball ache that would be to implement though as I guess you would need to pair a lot of APIs or pay google out the backside
Currently OpenStreetMap routing API, would have to be replaced with the Google Maps Transit API.
Would be great to offer this as an option, even if we would have to fill in our own API key. The train tracks in my country differ quite somewhat from the roads when I try it out. Also. busses take defined routes and not the shortest path. Google Maps provides all these routes.
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#145This is very cool, congrats OP!
I wish it would let me select some other cities the bus passes through, since as another commenter said it just uses the quickest way by car - though I guess that would not impact the seat selection too much, since the general direction of travel is still the same!
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#146What a cool idea! Well done! One feature suggestion: it would be cool if it asked you if you prefer the shade or the sun. I’m in Canada, and during winters I love to sit on the sunny side of the bus.
You need a feature to tell you to sit on the "wrong" side ? There's just two sides !
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#147genius. works for my trip to dudley castle!
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
Getting lost on the 0.1% edge cases or improvements is why I never finish side projects, either.
I don't think getting the position of the sun is an edge case, it's a fundamental capability for the product to work at all
I believe they meant edge cases when dealing with sun position calculations or maybe other things, not that the sun position is an edge case.
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#150Whats the technology behind this? Is it spatial SQL or some other python-based spatial analysis? I suppose the map is either open layers or leaflet, but the other part is more interesting. Sorry, didn't find it on the page or here, please take excuse if already answered. Thanks