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Re:Show HN: Road Trips in Australia by empressplay on Saturday February 23, 2019 @07:48PM (#19236377)
Also, I had to blow out the itinerary to three weeks in order to get a single route between Adelaide and Melbourne that went via the Grampians, which is overlooking a pretty serious tourist attraction...
Re:Show HN: Road Trips in Australia by reverseengineer on Saturday February 23, 2019 @08:05PM (#19236457)
You could enter desired sequence: Adelaide Grampians National Park Melbourne. Easy to visit Grampians in default 2 week duration. Adelaide will be start, Melbourne finish. Grampians travel-thru. But the point that Grampians had to be proposed by AI is useful. Taken.
Re:Show HN: Road Trips in Australia by reverseengineer on Saturday February 23, 2019 @07:54PM (#19236395)
Grampians National Park is present in Knowledge Graph, possible to enter as waypoint. Why it's overlooked (or bypassed)? Good question for us, will investigate... That's why showing it here!
Re:Show HN: Road Trips in Australia by cmroanirgo on Saturday February 23, 2019 @08:30PM (#19236560)
Not sure what your inputs are, but perhaps a rule of thumb (if not there already) is to generate a list of attractions sorted by quantity of reviews on (eg) trip advisor and then compare that result with #of people who actually go there.

It could give you the chance to rank 'must see' weighed against 'off the beaten track'. (Oz has heaps of 'off the beaten track' that the hordes of tourists don't know about)

Re:Show HN: Road Trips in Australia by reverseengineer on Sunday February 24, 2019 @12:19AM (#19237264)
This is tricky. We don't know who landed on the page. How to propose Paris in France without Eiffel Tower? OK if user explicitly checks "avoid 'must see'" or "avoid overtourism". Then possible to propose different stuff. One traveler told me exactly this, a week ago. Maybe we will implement this feature.