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by DanFau 2878 days ago
Seems you are a good test case. Could you share your map with the "share this map" button ? So I can figure it out
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Sure, it is shared at: https://oalley.net/map/b4e

If it helps, the 3 points going east are probably due to 2 canyons that do go east of town, one of which splits into 2 roads after a mile or so. And many of the others are similar in that, yes, there is a road that would extend your reach in those directions... but not quite where the map is drawing it. There are two areas that are complete anomalies: the path going NE through Springville and the one going SSW towards Levan have zero correlation with any reasonable roads - those both are flying straight over mountain ranges.

Thank you, I will study it.
Another wrong map. https://oalley.net/map/b4u

In 8h you can get to Salamanca(East of Barcelona) according to Google Maps, so like half of Spain should be marked.

It's also interesting that according to this, you can get to Monaco(6h 34m on Gmaps) , but no to Marseille (4h 54m on GMaps).

Same here, the points look mostly correct for going around mountains, but it doesn't follow the road to get there https://oalley.net/map/b59
Another interesting case is going from Key West out. Naples, FL is shown inside the 3 hour range, 110 miles apart as the crow flies. I'm not sure whether it's finding a ferry route, or whether ferries reasonably go that speed, but I thought the results were interesting.

https://oalley.net/map/b8y

Here's one:

4 hours by car from San Francisco. It says you can't reach South Lake Tahoe, but Google Maps (and my experience) show that it's usually about 3 1/2 hours.

https://oalley.net/map/bd7

https://oalley.net/map/b6j is another pretty poor one. edinburgh to Anstruther is probably closer to 2 hours. North Berwick is more than achieveable in an hour. Callander (in the north west of the map) is closer to 90m.