"30 minutes away..."
March 27, 2012 12:27 AM Subscribe
Are there any mapping applications that display all regions within a fixed distance from an input point? For example: from a given address in NYC, what are all the places I can get to in 30 minutes, via any combation of walking + public transit?
So we're moving to NYC (yay!), and my wife & I are looking for housing. We're trying to stay within a 30 minute commute from her work, and I'm searching for possible neighborhoods based on subway & bus maps.
Wouldn't it be nice, I mused, if I could type in where she works, and a tolerable commute time, and Google Maps or something would show all the places we could live within (any combination of) transit + walking distance? All the data's already there, on NYC MTA. Surely someone more clever than I has already thought of this and done it.
Right? If not...I might take a crack at it. If the answer is no, this doesn't exist, then I have a follow-up question: I bet there's an algorithm in graph theory that returns a list of verticies within a given distance from a source vertex. Where should I start looking?
So we're moving to NYC (yay!), and my wife & I are looking for housing. We're trying to stay within a 30 minute commute from her work, and I'm searching for possible neighborhoods based on subway & bus maps.
Wouldn't it be nice, I mused, if I could type in where she works, and a tolerable commute time, and Google Maps or something would show all the places we could live within (any combination of) transit + walking distance? All the data's already there, on NYC MTA. Surely someone more clever than I has already thought of this and done it.
Right? If not...I might take a crack at it. If the answer is no, this doesn't exist, then I have a follow-up question: I bet there's an algorithm in graph theory that returns a list of verticies within a given distance from a source vertex. Where should I start looking?
Response by poster: Aha! Cartoo doesn't do public transit, but mapnificent is exactly what I wanted. Thanks!
(Strangely, it hangs in Firefox, but Chrome works OK.)
posted by molybdenum at 1:16 AM on March 27, 2012
(Strangely, it hangs in Firefox, but Chrome works OK.)
posted by molybdenum at 1:16 AM on March 27, 2012
Walk Score does a version of this as well. If you click on the Your Commute tab you can enter a home and work address and they'll give you walk, bike, drive, and transit times. I know they've been actively working to upgrade their algorithms, so if you tried them in the past and didn't like them you might give it another shot.
posted by postel's law at 9:09 AM on March 27, 2012
posted by postel's law at 9:09 AM on March 27, 2012
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Ah, here it is.
posted by maxwelton at 12:50 AM on March 27, 2012 [2 favorites]