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Re: NYC Subwaysheds

#2
Nice first pass, but its clearly calculating these as the pigeon flies and not taking the various stitched together street grids into account. You should get diamond and square shapes, not circles, for the most part. I'm working on a redesigned subway map / nomenclature an indicators of walking time to nearest stations is a subtle feature I want to build in. Something between a watershed like this and a vornoi diagram depending on which edge comes first.

Re: NYC Subwaysheds

#7
I enjoyed it, nice idea and execution, it feels very intuitive.

One thing surprised me after I clicked around, I did not expect each station to become a separate browser history entry.

Re: NYC Subwaysheds

#8
It seems to make the assumption that you’ll get any particular train instantly. Factor in expected wait time for each line and the local/express variants and the sheds will shrink substantially.

it’ll also get confusing because the sheds will change as a function of time of day

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