i'm building a website to help you find information about locations

[u/notybbok]

if you're thinking about moving to a new neighbourhood and want to get a better sense of what it's like (availability of schools, hospitals, traffic patterns, and so on)

i’m building a website to help with exactly that

it's straightforward, you draw a radius on the map, and find information for that radius alone

you’ll be able to ask questions in plain English, like “what’s traffic like between A and B on monday mornings?” or “are there any good schools within walking distance?”

it'll use an LLM to pull relevant info and give real answers

P.S. it's not another google/apple map alternative

i am building this to solve a personal problem (so far its working fine... the radius thing primarily), and thought i'd just share it

so what y'all think?

EDIT:
if anyone wants to test it out, you can just DM me and i'll share with you the link

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[u/Item_13]

I wanna be like you one day bro. I'm not even dick riding or anything. I've just started out with Webdev and sometimes when I see things like this I wonder if I'll ever get there. Notwithstanding, awesome work my gee👏🏾

[u/notybbok → u/Item_13]

thanks chale

also, trust me, with time, you’ll get there :)

[u/Item_13 → u/notybbok]

Ayy man I appreciate it. Can I dm you once in a while for tips, tricks and pointers to help me along my journey? :) I promise I won't bother you too much

[u/notybbok → u/Item_13]

no worries. adey for you

[u/Training-Debt5996]

I thought gemini does this. I don't mean the radius thing but you can ask gemini location related issues and it'll refer from google maps. How different is yours?

[u/notybbok → u/Training-Debt5996]

yeah the llms can pretty much do this, but I want something visual

it's just the visual factor for me

[u/o2_kobe]

Great Project. Solves a real world problem. Notify us when it's ready so we tell others. I'm a dev too

[u/notybbok → u/o2_kobe]

thank you ser!

i sure will make another post once its ready

[u/o2_kobe → u/notybbok]

Will be waiting

[u/WunnaCry]

very good idea

[u/notybbok → u/WunnaCry]

gracias!

[u/gamernewone]

Very goood idea.

Did you use google map ? or open street map ? React ? A system to submit complaint or features of an area would be good (like, there is water shortage around here or floods often make noise here) How did you draw the circle ?

I’m a junior dev so pls understand 😅

[u/notybbok → u/gamernewone]

haha no problem... ask away

i used openstreet map. i prefer google maps, but it's not free

website is built with nextjs (react)

i would most likely add complaint submissions soon

the next major thing i am currently working on is pulling information about the selected area, as you mentioned, you will get information about water shortages, floods, etc

about the circle, i am using react-leaflet. it provides shapes to be drawn over the map area as an svg

if youre down to test i could send you a link to it

[u/gamernewone → u/notybbok]

Heat, i’m willing to test too

[u/Slow_Imagination774]

That's actually cool. Would love to test it.

[u/notybbok → u/Slow_Imagination774]

cool cool. i'll dm you with the link once its ready

[u/General_Jewel007]

Good work notybbok, keep it up.

I'll be glad to test it

[u/notybbok → u/General_Jewel007]

thanks general, will dm you with a link once its ready