There are so many map-based apps that should be pretty simple to implement and yet haven't been (afaik)
- Chances of rain along your bike route for different start times
- Given a route, best rated restaurants that don't take you far away from that route, for pick up orders
- Best restaurant to meet up for two parties, that requires them to travel a roughly equal amount
You can hack all this stuff, and I know because I frequently do, but it's all more of a pain in the ass than it can and should be
This is kind of why I have a hunch that most applications of chatbots are a weak cop out solution for problems where the real solution would be good UX.
@misc There’s a Dutch app doing this.
https://androidworld.nl/android-apps/weermeister
@misc not only UX, the amount of different questions you might have answers to, like 'restaurants that allow charging bike batteries', 'cafes or bakeries along the path', support for different surfaces, slopes, boring vs scenic, and a long list of etcs. Each type of question requires not only different UX and algorithms, some also require different data structures, multiplying the amount of CPU to generate then and disk and RAM to use them. And you can also require offline support.
@mdione @misc Like Overpass with human-oriented interface.
Similar to what Bellingcat did with https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2023/05/08/finding-geolocation-leads-with-bellingcats-openstreetmap-search-tool/ .