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Very nice. I actually wanted to concoct something like this for Anki, with large streets of the city—since in this sprawl I sometimes only vaguely know what's o
by aasasd 5y ago
Very nice. I actually wanted to concoct something like this for Anki, with large streets of the city—since in this sprawl I sometimes only vaguely know what's on the other end of it. But didn't think that web maps could serve me for that.
Some minor nitpicks:
- If you could allow zooming in/out with double-tap-and-drag on phones, that would be cool. Specifically it would help with one-handed use.
- On a ‘square’, the road can go right around the pin, so the distance is measured inside this circle, and I get <100 points. Frankly I should've guessed that this would be the case, but kinda prefer that the app would do it for me.
- Perhaps there's not much use in offering streets that only have like a hundred meters inside the radius—especially since the page doesn't allow scrolling outside the circle, to more comfortably tap the street and not aim at the small chunk of it.
- OTOH it would be better if I could scroll somewhat outside the circle, to have the streets in the middle of the screen where it's more convenient to look and tap.
As a side remark: using this in European-style compact cities, especially in ‘old towns’, can be quite a hardcore mode. In the 19th century, the region in the circle comprised the whole city and some outskirts, so now there are a lot of old streets in this area. And with my smaller native city (half a million people), the circle covers most of it.
- adamlynch 5y agoThanks for taking the time to write all that. Very helpful