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Location cues like "near the lake" or "near the train station" or "near the homeless camp" are critical pieces of information for me before I pick a target.
by sgustard 9y ago
Location cues like "near the lake" or "near the train station" or "near the homeless camp" are critical pieces of information for me before I pick a target.
- nevir 9y agoI wonder if some sort of projection would help there: expand areas around the points of interest, and compress space between points.
- geon 9y agoPerhaps morphing the physical map to match the time would work?
- davnicwil 9y agoHaven't fully thought it through, but I think such a projection would be unintelligible in most cases - it would probably only look remotely 'intuitive' if travel time would always increase with distance. For a real city, it would likely just be very weirdly morphed blobs of the map all cut up and smushed back together, with bizarrely curved roads, non-aligning roads & train lines, etc.
- ambicapter 9y agoNow I definitely want to see that map, just for kicks.
- csom 9y agoHere's such a map for Singapore we created quite a while ago: http://xiaoji-chen.com/2011/isochronic-singapore/ http://xiaoji-chen.com/2011/isochronic-singapore/ http://www.chsommer.com/isosin.htm http://www.chsommer.com/isosin.htm
- deepGem 9y agoThe more I think about this, the more I'm convinced it'll work. Somehow making the map truly dynamic by changing the scale according to the time it takes to reach the destination will be helpful. So the scale of the map changes as per the traffic and other factors that affect the time taken to reach specific destinations. This should work, yeah.