road.li
Dev tools
route planning
SHOW HN2013
88points
52comments
#271of 1,739 in 2013
Top 16%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
11 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 3 critical, out of 35 comments about the project. Thread score +0.17.
Idea: 11 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful idea for finding stops along a route
From 4 comments
This is brilliant. Just such a useful idea. But I would say that this should have been 'mobile first', and would strongly suggest expending effort on mobile experience. This is…
rwhitman on HNThis is super cool! I can't tell you how many times I've been driving between LA and San Diego or LA and San Francisco, and just wanted to find a coffee shop, edible food, or…
thesash on HNI love this. Make it an app please! I've downloaded multiple apps thinking they'd include this feature and none have. Very useful.
avalaunch on HNthis is great, I was thinking of building something similar, but it didn't seem like the route finding APIs were there at the time. It seems to side step a lot of the problems…
awongh on HN
Objections
Hard to use on mobile phones
From 2 comments
This is brilliant. Just such a useful idea. But I would say that this should have been 'mobile first', and would strongly suggest expending effort on mobile experience. This is…
rwhitman on HNThis is super cool! I can't tell you how many times I've been driving between LA and San Diego or LA and San Francisco, and just wanted to find a coffee shop, edible food, or…
thesash on HN
Search returns irrelevant results for multi-word chain names
From 2 comments
Great idea. I often like to find something "along the way", especially for long road trips. Just a datapoint, trying to find a Boston Market along my route gave me lots of…
johnnyo on HNOP may want to partner with lodging sites - road-weary travelers may not know where they will want to spend the night until late in the day, and the less expensive motel choices…
dmckeon on HN
Page becomes unresponsive while typing
From 3 comments
Feedback: I clicked on the suggestion "Boston to Providence via McDonalds." Then I decided to try entering the information I wished I'd had on my Labor Day road trip: where was…
thisisnotatest on HNLikewise. I did a search in one country, started a new one in a new country and it's still locked up. Couldn't even close the tab. (Chrome, OSX). Really neat app, though!
aptwebapps on HNNeeds some debouncing! Other than that, it's awesome.
peter_l_downs on HN
Requests
Mobile-friendly layout
From 3 comments
This is brilliant. Just such a useful idea. But I would say that this should have been 'mobile first', and would strongly suggest expending effort on mobile experience. This is…
rwhitman on HNAgreed, or at least a breakpoint at ~720 that makes it stack vertically (i.e. http://cl.ly/image/0m30232n1N1A)
wbobeirne on HNThis is super cool! I can't tell you how many times I've been driving between LA and San Diego or LA and San Francisco, and just wanted to find a coffee shop, edible food, or…
thesash on HN
Multiple stops or several competing places
From 3 comments
Awesome work on this. Another idea for you: I'd like to put in multiple competing places to see which is optimal. Should I go to Wendy's or Burger King on the way?
joshdotsmith on HNSimilarly, I often have errands to run and 4-5 locations and it's not immediately obvious which route and order I should go to each of them.
proexploit on HNIt's still baffling to me that they got rid of multiple-stage trip routing. Sure, you can drag the route to add waypoints - but it's nowhere near as precise as providing an…
uptown on HN
Shareable URLs that update with the route
From 1 comment
Maybe also have URLs update automatically for copying and pasting? At the moment, it stays as http://road.li/ Allowing people to share URLs might increase adoption of the site.…
prawn on HN
Show the chosen route directly in Google Maps
From 1 comment
How about when you click one of the suggestions, go ahead and open the route in google maps.
excitom on HN
Questions
What data set is used, such as OpenStreetMap
From 1 comment
Awesome! Does this use openstreetmap data, or what data set?
mooneater on HN
Can the route be extracted into directions
From 1 comment
This is quite neat. Any way to extract the directions once I decide which way point I want to go through?
outericky on HN
Alternatives named
Google Maps multiple destinations and drag-to-route
From 3 comments
If you're using Google Maps and are looking at a route from A to B, you can click any point on the path and drag it to anywhere on the map, and the route will update to pass…
aaronpk on HNThe classic google maps lets you do this with any number of points. Just the new maps removed this feature:…
n00j on HNmaps.google.com does this exactly with a few extra clicks: Click "Get directions" button, click the "Add Destination" link, fill in A, B, and C then click the "Did you mean a…
smokestack on HN
Garmin GPS route search
From 1 comment
This is one feature that I miss from my Garmin GPS -- ability to set a route, and then search for locations or types of locations along the route.
sardonicbryan on HN