On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Alec Battles wrote:
"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.

then the website would be wrestling the metric of nearness from the
hands of the user, whereas the user may have access to secret
underground tunnels.

How does that follow?


John
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