adamlynch

I've just rewritten this area of the code completely so all of this should be fine now. Thanks again!

This is fixed now!

Fixed!

Fixed!

I've considered adding hints. Do you have ideas? Mine:

1. Give names of intersecting streets. 2. Reduce the circle by half (just for this street). 3. Show a photo. 4. Allow you to drop a pin and tell you the distance (but not the direction). Then you can confirm the pin or move it one more time.

This is now fixed! (Thanks to a contribution by johrpan)

This is now fixed! (Thanks to a contribution by johrpan)

This is now fixed! (Thanks to a contribution by johrpan)

This is now fixed! (Thanks to a contribution by johrpan)

This is now fixed! (Thanks to a contribution by johrpan)

Thank you! This is an issue I'm aware of and will fix. Never considered zoom... interesting!

This morning I hit the Maptiler free plan limit. I now pay $30/month for it (annoyingly they don't include sales tax in their displayed prices). I think the limit goes a long way though

Thank you.

The radius should be adjustable

Yes I will be working on an adjustable radius (I made it 20% smaller yesterday btw) and difficulty modes.

Compete with friends (Can make it viral)

You can compete with friends. Click "Learn more" to figure out how to do that. I will also be looking into a "share score" functionality as well as leaderboards maybe.

Don't know how it calculates the point

I'm aware of an issue in how the distance is measured and will fix it. Sometimes there can also be a discrepancy between the data and the rendered map.

Thanks for the feedback!

Will fix this, thanks. Any further info would be helpful

I've added a marker to the centre of the circle. Thanks again

For now, I've reduced the circle radius by 20%. I plan to make it adjustable in the future.

Thanks. For now, I've reduced the circle radius by 20%. I plan to make it adjustable in the future.

For now, I've reduced the circle radius by 20%. I plan to make it adjustable in the future.

For now, I've reduced the circle radius by 20%. I plan to make it adjustable in the future.

For now, I've reduced the circle radius by 20%. I plan to make it adjustable in the future.

For now, I've reduced the circle radius by 20%. I plan to make it adjustable in the future.

For now, I've reduced the circle radius by 20%

For now, I've reduced the circle radius by 20%. I plan to make it adjustable in the future.

Thanks for the kind words and for your time in writing this. Great feedback. FYI I'm tracking issues & requests here: https://github.com/adam-lynch/back-of-your-hand/issues

I love the idea of difficulty modes like "taxi driver". That might help in making everyone happy; people have wildly varying opinions on difficulty.

A small aside: I found it pleasantly devious that the circle restricts the scrolling at higher zoom levels! Just in the cases where the target street is very close to the border it might be nice to relax it a bit though...

You're the second person to mention that some amount of over-scrolling would be helpful so I'll add that soon.

While choosing the location, when pressing the "Zoom In" button 2-4 times suddenly street names were displayed again! Is this intentional so people can easier find their starting point? Firefox 98.0 on Linux

OK thanks. I think this is just that the map tiles didn't load quick enough and you saw through to the layer with streets. I'll look into it soon.

Would it be possible to export a map view to print it out in good quality for offline reconnaissance / tinkering?

I'm not sure what you mean here. Can't you get maps elsewhere? Or do you mean the final screen where it shows the maps with the 5 streets marked out?

I really appreciate you taking the time to look into this! I don't have much more to say right now than what I said to this person: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30742704. I need to dig into it and see. What you've written will help. I might introduce unit tests (with visuals) for this so I can sure it works in a lot of different scenarios.

I'm going to fix this! Any further info would be helpful

Yes this is something I need to fix. I think you're right. I think it's measuring to the nearest node on the road (in the OpenStreetMap data) and not every point on the line as we see it. It could be related to the fact that some roads are actually broken up into multiple with the same name, not sure

If you could share more info I can look into it. It might be a discrepancy between the OpenStreetMap data and the map I show. Hard to say.

OK thanks but I do need to compute all of this. Plus some roads are broken into a lot of segments so I have to do more work first in finding & joining them up. Hopefully I could do all of it but just saying, it might be too much.

Thank you.

even a moving walkway

You've got to love Japan :D

the OpenStreetMap data for some locations is multilingual, you might want to give users the option of choosing the display language for the choices.

This is something I planned to. I actually do it for Ireland. I show the Irish and English version of the name. And the sign is in the style of real Irish street signs. I just need to do this for more countries.

Also, you might offer a wider range of landmarks for people to choose from. In Japan, the names of districts, buildings, parks, railways stations, bus stops, rivers, and mountains would be nice to include.

I'm going to look into expanding the objects but it's tough to keep everyone happy. It can be area-dependent.

that highlighting did not appear and the dotted line just went off to the left side of the screen

Wow, not sure what's happened here. Will fix.