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by nighthawk454 821 days ago
Right. There could be northbound traffic but not southbound for example. The answer is they must be symmetrizing the distances somehow. Alternatively, you could show the travel times _from a source location_ unambiguously, which might be more interesting for the average user (e.g. from home)
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Yeah, this is what I was hoping for with the touch. Seems like where I touch should be the origin and distance in x/y should represent time to travel from that origin.
That still wouldn’t work in all cases. For instance if a ring of locations are all more accessible than a location they contain. Which applies to basically all suburbs.