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[Gadget/Steve]

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On 29/08/2012 12:23 AM, John J Lee wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Will McGugan wrote:
> [...]
>> They revamped freecycle recently. It's no longer running off Yahoo
groups.
>> It's still the same basic format though. The biggest problem I have
with it
>> is that you still have to sign up to a particular geographical area. Your
>> 'n miles from my location' is more sensible.
>
> "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.
>
>
> John
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Having lived in London I have to agree with the qualifier that such
indexing is also very dependent on travel method - as there are some
journeys that are 25 minutes walk, 10 cycle, 45 drive by car/van (+ at
least 20 to find a parking space), 15 minutes on the bus (due to bus
lanes), 55 by tube/train, due to the need to go into the centre to
change, (especially in South London due to the sparse tube system and
mostly radial train network).

Gadget/Steve

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