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Nice - 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
by kawsper 11y ago
Nice - 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...