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I did where I live now, and only got 100/500 (perfect score on the major road, no idea where the rest were). I did my childhood home and got 99/500. My sugges

I did where I live now, and only got 100/500 (perfect score on the major road, no idea where the rest were). I did my childhood home and got 99/500. My suggestion would be to stick to majors and semi-majors (longer through streets). It would be more fun that way. Also there may be a bug, for the one road I got in the second try, I put the marker dead center of the entire road, but it said I was 4 meters off and gave me a 99, even though the green line was under the pin.

adamlynch 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely fix the pin accuracy and I'm thinking about what to do around street length & difficulty
- dataflow 5y ago
  > I'm thinking about what to do around street length & difficulty Here's one idea if it might help you get started (though you can polish it): - Mark all "dead ends". - Mark all private streets. - Recursively (or perhaps I should say iteratively, depending on your POV) mark all roads as X that only lead to previously-marked roads. - Non-recursively, unmark each marked road that is both adjacent to an unmarked road AND that satisfies some reasonable heuristic (such as "being within 2 intersections of the center of your circle"). - Also unmark all freeways/highways/expressways/other reasonably-major roads (although few if any of them should be marked at this point) - Delete all marked roads from your list of candidates. This should ensure that every candidate road actually has a non-negligible chance of being at least seen by random drivers, and not just by residents who are forced to drive on it on the way home. You can obviously augment
  - adamlynch 5y ago
    OK thanks but I do need to compute all of this. Plus some roads are broken into a lot of segments so I have to do more work first in finding & joining them up. Hopefully I could do all of it but just saying, it might be too much.

adamlynch 5y ago

Thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely fix the pin accuracy and I'm thinking about what to do around street length & difficulty

dataflow 5y ago
> I'm thinking about what to do around street length & difficulty Here's one idea if it might help you get started (though you can polish it): - Mark all "dead ends". - Mark all private streets. - Recursively (or perhaps I should say iteratively, depending on your POV) mark all roads as X that only lead to previously-marked roads. - Non-recursively, unmark each marked road that is both adjacent to an unmarked road AND that satisfies some reasonable heuristic (such as "being within 2 intersections of the center of your circle"). - Also unmark all freeways/highways/expressways/other reasonably-major roads (although few if any of them should be marked at this point) - Delete all marked roads from your list of candidates. This should ensure that every candidate road actually has a non-negligible chance of being at least seen by random drivers, and not just by residents who are forced to drive on it on the way home. You can obviously augment
- adamlynch 5y ago
  OK thanks but I do need to compute all of this. Plus some roads are broken into a lot of segments so I have to do more work first in finding & joining them up. Hopefully I could do all of it but just saying, it might be too much.