[python-uk] FlogTheDogs.com : computer and programming related gear (plus site)

[John J Lee]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Alec Battles wrote:
>> "n miles from me" becomes less helpful in London at 5 or 10 miles or so,
>> because travel time depends on direction as well as distance.  I guess the
>> situation is similar elsewhere.
>>
>> I imagine there are services out there that provide geospatially indexed
>> travel time.  It wouldn't have to be very accurate to be useful for this.
>
> then the website would be wrestling the metric of nearness from the
> hands of the user, whereas the user may have access to secret
> underground tunnels.

How does that follow?


John