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Re: Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

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ballooney wrote: post #54
Symbiote wrote: post #49

I tested with London to Paris — if it's easy with your routing system, you should add the Channel Tunnel as a fake road. I'm not sure why it chose a ferry so far off the shortest route.

Both sides are pretty good for being well shaded from the sun, in the Channel Tunnel, in my experience.

The routing takes the Portsmouth-Cherbourg ferry, which is not the way any bus would go. They take either the Channel Tunnel, or one of the shortest ferries like Dover-Calais.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

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Post by Amithv »

Symbiote wrote: post #49

I tested with London to Paris — if it's easy with your routing system, you should add the Channel Tunnel as a fake road. I'm not sure why it chose a ferry so far off the shortest route.

Currently, it uses OpenStreetMap routing.Planning to change to the Google Maps Routing API.

Re: Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

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Post by Amithv »

jack_riminton wrote: post #17

I entirely expect your motives to be non-commercial but I reckon there will be bus or train ticket sites who would pay for this. Which would also allow more people to benefit from it. Well done on a great job

Thanks

Re: Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

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Post by Amithv »

jorisboris wrote: post #5

I need this for flights, not for the sun, but I somehow always have fomo when having to choose between left and right side of the plane on the seat selection screen

I have a beta version for flight at https://dev.sitinshade.com/flight

Search based on the destination and departure airport. Please note that it is still in beta, so there may be some issues.

Currently, manual entry of flight duration is required.

Working on flight duration estimation, scenic side, and movie recommendations based on flight duration : - )

Re: Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

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Post by Symbiote »

ygra wrote: post #12
chocoboaus2 wrote: post #3

This would work for trains as well right? Overground trains i mean

It seems they route along roads between bus stops, so you won't get train routes that follow the tracks. But in principle the solution should be very similar.

If the routing is done with an internal database (rather than some roads-only API) it might be straightforward to use the railway lines from Open Street Map [1]. Or even the public transport routes recorded in OSM [2].

[1] https://openrailwaymap.org/

[2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/#layers=O

Re: Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

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Post by pb060 »

When I was a kid I used to take a bus from East to West coast of Italy in Summer. Despite my best efforts to calculate the side with minimum sun exposure, I always ended up on the sunny side. This also happened when doing the opposite of my predictions. An app like this would have helped me a lot, but it would be nice to have the possibility customize the route.
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