Hello, I've spent the last couple of days on google maps dragging around map pins and using the fancy ajax live updating distance/time calculator they now have to find locations 3 hours away from a specified location. I am looking to move house, but have to take into account commuting distance to and from work.
Using google maps I was able to place a map pin on a work location and drag a second pin around (using the nifty 'drag to change the route' feature) to a few locations I was considering. Now this is all when and good when i know exactly where i want to go, i can check very easily if its viable. but... I'm not 100% sure where I want to be, I just want to be within 3 hours of my work place. So here's the insane idea. Given a specified POI all routes 'outward' should be tested until they reach the '# hours' limit, taking into account speed limits of course, this would produce a circle (more like a 'splat' shape I predict) which when overlayed on a map would show the town/cities in reach within # hours driving distance. To me it sounds like a perfect google SoC challenge, a student project or just a project for some who's a little bored this weekend. I think this would be a really cool tool to have, think plenty of people would use something like this. now... usually when i have ideas someone has already made them into reality... hoping that's the case here ;) really need this. thoughts? thanks - daniel _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk