NYC Subwaysheds
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NYC Subwaysheds
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Re: NYC Subwaysheds
#2Nice 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.
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#3What a weirdly cool buy very niche site. Why 40 minutes? Why just NYC? Why just subways?
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#4Definitely helps to justify the Manhattan rent costs.
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#5It would be interesting to incorporate the ferry times the staten island train only appears 40 min. to staten island
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#6it's called an isochrone.
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#7I 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.
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#8It 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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#9Since it's Mapbox I wonder if they are using the Isochrone API[1], or if this is more custom b/c it's subways? I agree an adjustable duration of trip would be neat.
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#10herald sq and grand central seem to be the maximals