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Re: London’s most equidistant pub

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Post by ben_w »

leoedin wrote: post #25
ben_w wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Conveniently, I've put together an isochrone map generator: https://benwheatley.github.io/Isochrone/web/?region=london&c... The origin point selected here is roughly Mermaid House, on the north side between the Millennium Bridge and Blackfriars station. My route-finding here is more than a little naïve, instant acceleration to each road's speed limit, full-speed turns, no traffic, lights always with you, etc. but the…

> My route-finding here is more than a little naïve, instant acceleration to each road's speed limit, full-speed turns, no traffic, lights always with you, etc. but there is a place within 60 minutes of all locations, pre-selected in that URL. It's an interesting project, but that makes it completely worthless. Nobody's driving to central London anyway - journey times are measured by public transport. And even if the…

> Nobody's driving to central London anyway - journey times are measured by public transport. And even if they were driving, the journey times by car are completely dictated by traffic. The average weekday speed in central London is 7.1 mph.

Sure, one of my original intents was to get public transit data and include it. Turns out that's somewhat harder to get right than car/foot/cycle routing with OSM map data.

Re: London’s most equidistant pub

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Post by Theodores »

PaulRobinson wrote: post #6

The problem - and I can't understate this enough - is that these are all relatively close to each other (naturally), in one of the most miserable parts of London you could spend time in. More than 4 hours in that part of town and I start to feel more noticeably depressed. I get why equidistant is attractive, but you'll have a much nicer time if somebody is going to have a longer journey. So do yourself a favour: go o…

If you work in the West End and want to go to the pub with your workmates, you soon find that one lives in Greenwich, another in Twickenham, another in St Albans, another in Brighton and everyone 'blows you out' because of their fiendish travel requirements. So everyone goes home, no Friday night beer with the workmates, clients and locals.

This used to be a real problem before TfL put on night buses and late-night tube trains. The centre of town would be a deserted wasteland before a normal town centre would get started with nightlife. The city and Westminster are even worse, not helped by 'absentee landlords' that own luxury properties that are empty with no lights on.

I don't think London suburbs are much better, you need a regional town if you are to meet friends or do things with workmates, after work. However, in a regional town, there is the assumption that the grass is greener in London, with London the only place that gets top quality gigs and whatnot. This might be the case, but the inevitable geographic dispersion of people you know makes it unlikely that you ever enjoy much in the centre of London.

Re: London’s most equidistant pub

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Post by balderdash »

reedf1 wrote: post #16

"Equidistant" is not a good metric for convenience. The most convenient pubs are nearly always someone's local or the midpoint between everyone's workplace.

Yeah, I feel like convenient is:

* close to work place (as you said)

* somewhere that is located such that they are shortening their return home after the pub / total travel time of work to home is similar to work to pub to home)

* convenient to the most people (if three friends live in Battersea and one is in Hampstead - the pub is going to be in Battersea not somewhere bayswater or Knightsbridge).

Re: London’s most equidistant pub

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Post by dbbk »

lambfruit wrote: post #2

I built this. I expected to find the pub everyone in London could reach within an hour. There isn't one. Nothing clears 65 minutes either. The first pubs all 33 boroughs can reach turn up at 70 minutes, and there are exactly two of them, less than a hundred metres apart by Great Portland Street. The maths has no opinion on beer. The winner is a Greene King, number four is a Wetherspoon above Baker Street station, and…

Take your slop somewhere else

Re: London’s most equidistant pub

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Post by tkgally »

IshKebab wrote: post #23
lambfruit wrote: post #2

I built this. I expected to find the pub everyone in London could reach within an hour. There isn't one. Nothing clears 65 minutes either. The first pubs all 33 boroughs can reach turn up at 70 minutes, and there are exactly two of them, less than a hundred metres apart by Great Portland Street. The maths has no opinion on beer. The winner is a Greene King, number four is a Wetherspoon above Baker Street station, and…

> I built this. Oh hi Claude, how are you doing?

Yeah, that post really sounded like Claude to me, too.

I use Claude for various projects of my own, so I read its prose a lot. Its writing style seems to be becoming increasingly idiosyncratic, which might be a good thing.

When I release something it wrote, though, I try to make the origin clear. For example:

https://tkgally.github.io/ai-semantics/

Re: London’s most equidistant pub

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Post by kiranravi1995 »

i would say, the london has very vibrant pub culture. if you are into live music, good vibes, i would recommend Mr Foggs. if you are interested in watching football, rugby or cricket games and spent time with friends, i would recommend Pubs in Covent garden, Wembly and Tower Bridge. If you are going out after a corporate meeting, I would highly recommend the nearest pub to your meeting place suits better.

Re: London’s most equidistant pub

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Post by darreninthenet »

t0mpr1c3 wrote: post #12
PaulRobinson wrote: post #6

The problem - and I can't understate this enough - is that these are all relatively close to each other (naturally), in one of the most miserable parts of London you could spend time in. More than 4 hours in that part of town and I start to feel more noticeably depressed. I get why equidistant is attractive, but you'll have a much nicer time if somebody is going to have a longer journey. So do yourself a favour: go o…

See the Magna Carta at the British library. Pint at said pub. Curry on Drummond Street. Then catch a band at ULU.

ULU is gone now, University of London scrapped it

Re: London’s most equidistant pub

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Post by mvc »

Theodores wrote: post #32
PaulRobinson wrote: post #6

The problem - and I can't understate this enough - is that these are all relatively close to each other (naturally), in one of the most miserable parts of London you could spend time in. More than 4 hours in that part of town and I start to feel more noticeably depressed. I get why equidistant is attractive, but you'll have a much nicer time if somebody is going to have a longer journey. So do yourself a favour: go o…

If you work in the West End and want to go to the pub with your workmates, you soon find that one lives in Greenwich, another in Twickenham, another in St Albans, another in Brighton and everyone 'blows you out' because of their fiendish travel requirements. So everyone goes home, no Friday night beer with the workmates, clients and locals. This used to be a real problem before TfL put on night buses and late-night t…

Hehe, grass is always greener on the other side.

Re: London’s most equidistant pub

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Post by StilesCrisis »

lambfruit wrote: post #2

I built this. I expected to find the pub everyone in London could reach within an hour. There isn't one. Nothing clears 65 minutes either. The first pubs all 33 boroughs can reach turn up at 70 minutes, and there are exactly two of them, less than a hundred metres apart by Great Portland Street. The maths has no opinion on beer. The winner is a Greene King, number four is a Wetherspoon above Baker Street station, and…

Did you actually build this? It screams LLM homework to me.
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