Re:Show HN: Road Trips in Australia
by reverseengineer on Saturday February 23, 2019 @09:23PM
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Thank you for both parts. Neat part: it tries harder to meet duration rather than budget, though it works to meet them both simultaneously. This is exactly the sizzle. Sydney-Hobart is 23-24h of pure driving. If you drive several hours per day it's several days. With few hours per day it's more than a week. With sightseeing it's longer. So 11 days could be exaclty optimal. Possible to tweak curiosity & comfort levels. With Long Day curiosity you will compress the duration.
Understood. I picked that as it's my next kind-of road trip (though I'm anticipating most time spent at the destination).
It's ~ (9 + 3) hours of actual driving, with an overnight ferry ride in the middle, btw. Anything involving a ferry or similar will complicate an algorithm, I'm sure. I'm assuming you basically ignore captive travel time in those situations?
I had not experimented with the budget constraints originally. I note that if I put in 4 days & $2000 it offers trips of 13-15 days and $3000-4400. With 4 days and $3000 budget the trips are 10-14 days and $2600-3900.
Re:Show HN: Road Trips in Australia
by reverseengineer on Saturday February 23, 2019 @11:06PM
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We know ferry time usually. Regarding alternatives, interesting and useful. Will debug how it thinks.
If I enter an 'aggressive' timeframe, is it intentional that it assumes I have longer time than shown? (Sydney to Hobart, no waypoints, 4 days - it insists that the minimum time this trip can take is 11 days).
Small UX things - I like to tab between fields, and use keyboard shortcuts for drop-downs - I would like to be able to select '2 tourists' by pressing the number 2. Date-pickers are always horrible - Monday as first day of week would be great, option to text-enter ISO periods ditto.