-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 29/08/2012 12:23 AM, John J Lee wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Will McGugan wrote: > [...] >> They revamped freecycle recently. It's no longer running off Yahoo groups. >> It's still the same basic format though. The biggest problem I have with it >> is that you still have to sign up to a particular geographical area. Your >> 'n miles from my location' is more sensible. > > "n miles from me" becomes less helpful in London at 5 or 10 miles or so, because travel time depends on direction as well as distance. I guess the situation is similar elsewhere. > > I imagine there are services out there that provide geospatially indexed travel time. It wouldn't have to be very accurate to be useful for this. > > > John > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > > Having lived in London I have to agree with the qualifier that such indexing is also very dependent on travel method - as there are some journeys that are 25 minutes walk, 10 cycle, 45 drive by car/van (+ at least 20 to find a parking space), 15 minutes on the bus (due to bus lanes), 55 by tube/train, due to the need to go into the centre to change, (especially in South London due to the sparse tube system and mostly radial train network).
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