Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Aldi Price Map

aldipricemap.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

101–110 of 280 posts

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

#101

Post by Dathuil »

AussieWog93 wrote: post #93
kube-system wrote: post #14

Pet peeve of mine: it's 'Aldi' not 'Aldi's' https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/why-do-people-add-s-...

I always assumed this was a purely Aussie phenomenon, but I guess it makes sense that it's more of an "informal speech" thing than a regional ism.

I can't read the link but we've the same thing in Ireland. I've always assumed it stemed from shops being family owned. e.g. We have a stationary store that was originally called Eason and Sons which when said quickly sounds like Easons.

There'a s few other examples but that's the one that always stood out to me

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

#102

Post by statquontrarian »

donalhunt wrote: post #80
statquontrarian wrote: post #68

I'm curious why you're using a commercial tile provider -- CARTO -- instead of OpenStreetMaps?

It's a common misconception that the OpenStreetMap project provides free map tile resources for use by others. The focus of the project is the map data. https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/

What is the misconception? That paged you linked to says that map tiles are free for use with a few reasonable restrictions:

    Clearly display license attribution, normally in the bottom-right corner of the map.
    Do not actively or passively encourage copyright infringement.
    Recommended: Do not hardcode any URL to tile.openstreetmap.org as doing so will limit your ability to react if the service is disrupted or blocked. In particular, switching should be possible without requiring a software update.
    Recommended: add a link to https://www.openstreetmap.org/fixthemap to allow your users to report and fix problems in our data.
    Recommended: a contact email on your web page or app store page. If we cannot find contact information we will be unable to do anything except block if an issue arises.
Of course, there is no Service Level Agreement:

    Although our map tiles are generally very reliable, their availability to others is on a best effort basis and we offer no SLA or guarantees.
But that seems quite reasonable for donated resources.

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

#103

Post by bluGill »

eru wrote: post #43
ssss11 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t believe a Big Mac has a different cost at individual stores. I’m not in the US.. I don’t think it’s like that here in Australia but someone will probably prove me wrong :D

Formally, McDonald's actually has relatively little control over the franchisees.

Even corporate owned stores will often price different.

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

#104

Post by statquontrarian »

ayocado wrote: post #82
statquontrarian wrote: post #68

I'm curious why you're using a commercial tile provider -- CARTO -- instead of OpenStreetMaps?

Pretty sure I am not paying anything or using any API key :) Open Street Map basemap was too colorful and contrast with my color scheme was not very good in many parts of the map

From what I can find, CARTO does not have a free map tile server. In other words, while it technically works, I think it's against their terms of service. They probably don't care if you're small, so I wouldn't worry about legal threats, but at some point the tile server might check the referer and break your app.

It looks like you can just use OpenStreetMap instead, although the resources are donated so there is no guaranteed Service Level Agreement: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

#105

Post by Lio »

walthamstow wrote: post #96
AussieWog93 wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always assumed this was a purely Aussie phenomenon, but I guess it makes sense that it's more of an "informal speech" thing than a regional ism.

It's British too. Tesco is always called Tesco's.

British supermarket Sainsbury's even put it in their logo.

The actual name of the company is J Sainsbury plc.

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

#107

Post by [deleted] »

ssss11 wrote: post #24
pjot wrote: post #11

The way I’m interpreting the charts, the least expensive (green dot) clusters are indicative of which port received a given item. The stores furthest from the port also have the highest cost.

So they’re passing on transport costs?

[deleted]

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

#108

Post by stefs »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #74
ssss11 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So they’re passing on transport costs?

All businesses pass on all costs, otherwise they would go bankrupt. Revenue must remain greater than expenses (outside VC funded moonshots).

if the additional costs are lower than the revenue the businesses can choose whether to pass on costs or not.

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

#109

Post by oniony »

Lio wrote: post #105
walthamstow wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's British too. Tesco is always called Tesco's.

British supermarket Sainsbury's even put it in their logo. The actual name of the company is J Sainsbury plc.

Sainsbury's is a reduction of John Sainsbury's supermarket, so they need sense. Just like Wilko's is Wilkinson's general store.

Re: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

#110

Post by Lio »

atoav wrote: post #75
cottsak wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you Americans need to think about your "LEGOs" problem

How long do you thing that they will turn the already-plural "data" into the hyper-plural "datas"? Or has this already happened, I am too afraid to check.

Datums?

...and lets not get into the "paninis" situation.

Post reply on HN