[baq]

Public service announcement - these kind of maps are known as isochrone maps and they're anything but new, but are (IMHO criminally) unpopular. They're extremely helpful when house hunting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochrone_map

[cridenour]

Agreed. It took weeks of researching to find this term when I was looking to optimize travel time search. Once I did, everything became easier! Ended up forking Open Transit Planner, this was back in 2015. Turned 40 minutes real estate searches into 40ms or so.

[benced]

Wouldn't have helped you back then but LLMs are _spectacular_ at giving you the term that you don't really know what to google for.

[nashashmi]

Agree. I tried this with figuring out the name of a logical fallacy. And it led to a rabbit hole of info.

[all2]

What is this Open Transit Planner and where do I find it?

[notpushkin]

I believe they're talking about http://www.opentripplanner.org/.

[syntaxing]

Is your fork available somewhere cause it sounds awesome!

[throwaway22032]

They are to a point, I think.

I made one of these in the past when looking for places to live in London. The ultimate conclusion was that you could have inexpensive, short travel time, or nice/safe, choose two.

I gave up after realising that the market signals worked - if ignoring Central London it'd pretty much just be "more expensive = nicer"

[nashashmi]

They are also popular when establishing an office space, or when recruiting en masse for job opportunities/

[dopidopHN]

Yeah I would have noticed that the place I’m renting for a month in Montreal is in dark shades of blue!