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Show HN: Find rental flats based on commute time to your workplace (Switzerland)
- ckozlowski 11y agoDear god, please make one of these for Washington, D.C.
- pierre 11y agoWe might consider it, is there a good Real estate / Rent listing focussed on DC?
- ckozlowski 11y agoNot just for D.C., no. It's one of the larger/more expensive real estate markets in the U.S., but it's covered by "nationwide" listing tools. I'm asking for this to be made half in jest, although D.C. traffic is atrocious, and this sort of data fusion looks fantastic. Your concept looks great. =)
- encoderer 11y agohttp://www.trulia.com/for_rent/Washington,DC/map_v/driving:0%7Ctransit:1%7Cposition:38.924265;-77.027332%7Ctime:60_commute http://www.trulia.com/for_rent/Washington,DC/map_v/driving:0... You can filter by commute time to your work address under "All Filters"
- swimfar 11y agohttp://www.padmapper.com/ http://www.padmapper.com/ also does this. But only for walk, bike, and drive. Just click on "more features" and "super-secret advanced features."
- relate 11y agoI'm one of the creators. This was built in 40 hours at Hackzurich 2015 (www.hackzurich.com) and combines the following: * The largest rent database of Switzerland * A model of the train system of Switzerland * A simple recommender system * Google maps for name -> geolocation * OpenStreetMap for the map There are some heavy calculations behind each query, so it takes about 15 sec to load. Furthermore, you need to like at least 3 apartments and dislike at least 3, before the system starts recommending.
- sschueller 11y agoVery cool, what technologies you are using in your backend? For commute times are you using the SBB data during rush hour times? My commute is way longer if I don't go to work during rush hour as there are no 'Schnellzüge' outside of those times.
- relate 11y agoThanks :-) The stack is based on: * A Javascript based SPA with handlebars for template and leaflet.js for map * Django + Postgres for the API * Simple Vertex-Edge model of the train system, with shortest-path to estimate travel times (including walking distance) -This is on our to-do list to improve, but we do this since querying all pairwise travel times from SBB/google would be too heavy. * Numpy/Scipy for the machine learning
- icot 11y agoI'm also curious about the commute time estimation. I've been playing with the app around the Geneva area where I live and work and I think the commute times are a bit too optimistic. Nice idea, in any case!
- relate 11y agoYeah, we are not accounting for connection times right now. However, we have the data to make it more accurate, just needs a bit more coding ;)
- pierre 11y agoWe take the times from cff / sbb site. We then add a walking time from and to bus / train stations. You can have a look to the graph here if you are interested : http://wonsch.ch/lab/2/ http://wonsch.ch/lab/2/
- MasterScrat 11y ago> A model of the train system of Switzerland I am curious, what do you use for this?
- ggordan 11y agoThis is great, I've been considering writing something similar for London taking account cycling distance/time.
- relate 11y agoIdeally I'd also want also to have cycling+train - since that is also a feasible option for some people. E.g. I live 1km away from a train station that is well connected to my workplace, so I can bike to the train station and commute the rest.
- gabipurcaru 11y agoCool stuff. There's something similar for London too: http://property.mapumental.com/ http://property.mapumental.com/
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- SlippingAway 11y agoWe have worked also in a similar application for a few American cities, like Seattle: https://my.teleport.org/cities/c23nb/Seattle/neighborhoods https://my.teleport.org/cities/c23nb/Seattle/neighborhoods (also SF, NY and LA)
- hobo_mark 11y agoCan anyone comment how accurate the prices are? Because from what I see rents around the Geneva area are even more ridicolous than I remembered!
- rasur 11y agoGeneva & Zurich are always going to be laughably expensive, mostly.
- trevyn 11y agoI'd rather see recommendations on where to work given where I live.
- hamhamed 11y agohttps://www.stay22.com/ https://www.stay22.com/ Similar too, but for Hotels and Airbnb in case you are travelling to visit someone else's workplace (searchable by their company name or address)
- pierre 11y agoSeems like a great startup idea :) Hotel website usually have high affiliation rewards.
- delroth 11y agoYou might want to switch off DEBUG mode on your backend app... File "/home/django/django_project/wonsch/views.py" in get_data 35. homegate_result = requests.get('https://api-**CENSORED**.apicast.io:443/rs/real-estates',headers={'auth':'**CENSORED**'},params=homegate_params).json()
- relate 11y agoThanks :-)
- flathach 11y agoStrange but we made website on same idea at HackZurich :)
- pierre 11y agoWe made it here too. Do you have a url to share?
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- flathach 11y agoSorry we didn't upload it yet and visualized data in a heat map.
- yawniek 11y agowe where overwhelmed by the quality and the number of apps you guys built ontop of the homegate.ch api. i really hope we can take this further.
- MadManE 11y agoThis is pretty amazing. Great job.
- yownie 11y agoI used something similar (http://www.triptropnyc.com/ http://www.triptropnyc.com/) when I was choosing where to move to in NYC for the first time.
- chillydawg 11y agoI started a company called locatable (www.locatable.com) with a couple of mates some years back. The search engine did the same thing in the UK. The site is now offline, but there's some screenshots here https://data.gov.uk/apps/locatable-0 https://data.gov.uk/apps/locatable-0 By far the most time consuming aspect of running the algorithm was computing the polygons to plot on the gmap. The actual search is fairly straightforward, even when using roads instead of the relatively simple public transit graph to compute the isochrones.
- kawsper 11y agoNice - I wanted something like that the other day. Hopefully with open government data we would some day be able to solve it. I want to specify "I want to live close to a forest, a skatepark, and with an airport 1.5 hours from me", and then it should give me nearby areas that fit the criteria. Data-collection, cleaning data, and tagging it up is hard though :(
- chillydawg 11y agoActually, the data cleaning isnt so bad. Open Street Map is what you want. I wrote a piece of software for locatable that parsed a given chunk of OSM (in this case, all of the UK mainland) and pull out stuff like hospitals, transit stations, land usage types and so on. I had two models: a zone and a poi. Zones were an area, eg a park or a forest or an industrial park that you could specify as an include/exclude + buffer distance. Eg: At least 10mi from a forest. Poi is point of interest and had the same search semantics: put me 1mi from a GP surgery or a supermarket. Or put me at least 1mi from a primary school because..er...mistakes were made...
- poooogles 11y agoOh this was amazing, I used it a couple of times when I first moved to London to figure out where I needed to live. It helped out massively compared to the complete guesses I was going on.
- chillydawg 11y ago
- arafalov 11y agoI'd love to have similar things for super-markets (food/goods shops), for those without cars and buying lots of stuff. It might be more efficient to get onto a metro/subway and travel to a distant shop that is very close to the stop than to walk to a - physically - more proximate shop that requires you to walk and carry both ways.
- eevilspock 11y agoOn the other hand, walking for errands is great exercise. I find it strange that people make such an effort to go to the gym, but also make such an effort to avoid natural built-into-life exercise. Walking and any kind of motion is great, especially for those of us in a job that involves so much sitting! There was a great poster campaign here in New York encouraging people to get off the subway one stop early, or take the stairs, showing the extra calories burned.
- arafalov 11y agoThe issue is not walking, but potentially carrying a lot of groceries or other things back. A special sub-case, so to speak. I do love walking in pretty much any other context.
- eevilspock 11y agoTrulia does this in the U.S. for a number of cities. Here's New York: http://www.trulia.com/local/new-york-ny/driving:1|transit:0|position:40.681953;-73.959595|time:60_commute http://www.trulia.com/local/new-york-ny/driving:1|transit:0|...
- s3nnyy 11y agoA bit off-topic: I lived in Munich for 20 years, now I live in Zurich and can't be any happier. Switzerland is a great place to work in IT. "HackZurich" is only one of the things that makes this city into what it is. Check out my post "Eight reasons why I moved to Switzerland" and shoot me a mail if you are interested in coming here. https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-to-switzerland-to-work-in-it-c7ac18af4f90 https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...
- ben_utzer 11y agoWhere did you get the homegate api? I was looking for it years ago to do something similar. :/
- yawniek 11y agowe opened it specifically for the hack zurich hackathon. but we're working on providing a public api in the future.
- LiquidFlux 11y agoI can't access the OP due to a firewall, is this similar to Zoopla's "time-travel" search? http://www.zoopla.co.uk/travel-time/ http://www.zoopla.co.uk/travel-time/