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My favorite: hayo @red_hayonnaise I want an app that takes me on a timed, random drive; like I wanna drive around for an hour, map me a course that winds back
by josefresco 6y ago
My favorite:
hayo @red_hayonnaise
I want an app that takes me on a timed, random drive; like I wanna drive around for an hour, map me a course that winds backroads and brings me back home in that timeframe
- robohoe 6y agoThis would be spectacular if it could find fun/twisty roads nearby, similar to https://www.motorcycleroads.com https://www.motorcycleroads.com.
- ENOTTY 6y agoI've used Twistypedia to learn about such roads https://www.twistypedia.com/ https://www.twistypedia.com/
- RileyJames 6y agoInteresting. I wanted a similar app, but A to B, rather than round trips. Best I could do with the majors is disable highways & toll roads, but often it would still try to take similar routes. BJ Landcruiser tops out at ~120k, and who wants to go in straight lines on highways. More fun to try and find a fire road it can’t get down. Still searching.
- karussell 6y agoMaybe the custom routing from GraphHopper is what you want: https://www.graphhopper.com/blog/2020/05/31/examples-for-customizable-routing/ https://www.graphhopper.com/blog/2020/05/31/examples-for-cus... You can eg. avoid primary roads additionally to motorways and tolls. (note, I'm a co-founder of GraphHopper) Not only for car but also for motorcycle, bike, walking, ... Can be further tweaked with preferring/avoiding curvy roads or elevation. And GraphHopper also supports round trips.
- totetsu 6y agoOsmAnd~ might have this capability. It has ways to avoid main roads when I use it cycling.
- RileyJames 6y agoVery cool product. I'd probably take the mountain biking directions, until the proper backroads and then hema maps are the best so far. https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=Gisborne%2C%203437%2C%20Australia&point=Dinner%20Plains%2C%20Australia&locale=en-US&vehicle=mtb&weighting=fastest&elevation=true&turn_costs=false&use_miles=false&layer=Omniscale https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=Gisborne%2C%203437%2C%20... Lets me know if you ever do 4x4 mapping, although I can't imagine there's a strong business case for it.
- karussell 6y agoWe have a simple 4 wheeler config: https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper/blob/master/core/src/main/java/com/graphhopper/routing/util/Car4WDFlagEncoder.java https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper/blob/master/core/...
- megablast 6y agoCan there be anything more destructive to society?? The pollution, the micro plastics, the chance of killing someone.
- geranim0 6y agoMaybe the guy wants to go on a ride because he's about to kill his wife? He may do something worse if he doesn't get his ride.
- economusty 6y agoWhen I see comments like yours I think to myself, "this person better ride a bicycle to work to feel it appropriate to pontificate like this"
- scrollaway 6y agoGPS doesn't have to only be used by cars. Save your breath for useful activism such as electric cars, cycling and renewables. Shaming people for having a good time is pointless and counterproductive.
- xwdv 6y agoYes. Far more destructive.
- tyingq 6y agoRandom driving was the only thing that would make my kids go to sleep when they were babies and feeling cranky. I'm not sorry for doing it :)
- offtop5 6y agoBy that logic we should all be driving Priuses. People buy cars for recreational all the time.
- bigiain 6y ago> Can there be anything more destructive to society?? Yeah. Just about every modern industry. Even aggregated across all people, personal creation of "pollution" is all but insignificant compared top industry. https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sham/ https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sh... "The evidence, unfortunately, comes in the form of the worst pandemic to hit humanity in a century. We were confined. We were quarantined, and in many places still are. Forced by an insidious parasite, many of us dramatically slashed our individual carbon footprints by not driving to work and flying on planes. Yet, critically, the true number global warming cares about — the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide saturating the atmosphere — won’t be impacted much by an unprecedented drop in carbon emissions in 2020 (a drop the International Energy Agency estimates at nearly eight percent compared to 2019). This means bounties of carbon from civilization’s cars, power plants, and industries will still be added (like a bank deposit) to a swelling atmospheric bank account of carbon dioxide. But 2020’s deposit will just be slightly less than last year’s. In fact, the levels of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere peaked at an all-time high in May — because we’re still making big carbon deposits."
- JimDabell 6y agoIt’s for running rather than driving, but Trail Router finds round trip routes: https://trailrouter.com https://trailrouter.com HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23802317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23802317
- comprev 6y agoMy GPS cycle computer does something similar - plots a random route close to a fixed length.
- randomsearch 6y agoAn idea with no societal downside. We definitely need ethics to be a core part of software dev training.
- saagarjha 6y agoWell, I guess you'll have to weigh the amount of fossil fuels that you burn doing that against whatever else you were going to do in that time.
- randomsearch 6y agoUnsure if that's a joke, but no! That is absolutely not what you would rely on! You can't simply delegate all ethics to the level of the individual user! Your actions matter, the technology you create shapes the world, and you have to consider the consequences of it.
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- Cthulhu_ 6y agoI was eyeing up a satnav for my motorcycle, one option it had was to create a windy, indirect, touristy route instead of the fastest / most efficient one. It was an interesting one. But in the end I couldn't justify paying €400 for something that my phone could do. I know, motorcycle satnavs are hardened, deal with direct sunlight better, work offline and are much more energy efficient, but still. I feel like at that time (this was only a few years ago) those systems should be a lot better already, like offloading work to your phone (becoming more of an external screen), etc.
- crucialfelix 6y agoJust set an alarm, turn off all your devices and get lost. When the alarm goes off, reconnect and go home. We've lost so much magic in our lives because the phone is too easy to use. We've eliminated serendipity