Driving distances map

[RJ2DJ]

Just wondering if anyone knows of a website where you can input a postcode (for example your place of work) and how far you would be prepared to travel (say 45min for a commute) and it then gives you a radius of places that are within that distance?

http://property.mapumental.com/ Just like this - but not using public transport (we are PH afterall!)

Cheers!

[Dave^]

Pretty sure Microsoft's AutoRoute had the ability to do it.

But that might have been by distance rather than by time.

[big_boz]

There is definitely something like this that exists, a friend of mine works in HR and he showed me it once, was something to do with working out the impact of moving an office to a different site and the HR implications of travel time for staff....il see if i can work out what it was, I think it might have been based on Google maps, but im not sure.

[Ru78]

HI,
Not sure if this is what you want, but Right Move has the ability to design a search based on a radius from a given postcode... Might not be big enough, but you can also build a custom search on the map.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale.html
Ru

[LeoSayer]

See this recent news article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20121897

[RJ2DJ]

big_boz - that sounds perfect, let me know if you remember!

Ru78 - cheers, but not quite. Ideally it would be a method that takes into account the relative speeds on which you would travel along the roads at. eg: motorway 65mph average in morning traffic, compared to A-road through town - 25mph.

Leosayer - That looks like it would be exactly what I'm after, but unless I'm being daft I can't see a way for general users to search using IGeolise?

Edited by RJ2DJ on Tuesday 13th November 16:20

[big_boz]

RJ2DJ said:

big_boz - that sounds perfect, let me know if you remember!

Edited by RJ2DJ on Tuesday 13th November 16:20

I have asked him, i will update when he comes back to me.

[GoneAnon]

Autoroute 2003 has it - I just checked and I can set speeds for different types of road, then choose the driving time and it draws an outline around the starting point showing how far I would reach in any direction/road.

[Telomerase]

There is a realy easy way, maps.google.co.uk > get directions > input place of work as A > input random near place as B > drag point B around on map and google will update distance and time. This is how I found my house which had to be less than 30 mins and max hooning roads to work.

[MartinQ]

I don't know how accurate it is (i.e. it didn't seem quite right when I did a search), but it should give an indication.

http://cartoo.dyndns.org/

[RJ2DJ]

GoneAnon - Thanks, if I have to pay for a solution I will do that!

Telomerase - Agreed, but I was after something just a little more automated, which might throw up some places that I hadn't thought of.

MartinQ - in theory that's perfect. As you say though, seems a bit flakey - it's completed a couple of the searches i've done (with some optimistic timings in places, for routes that I know well), but generally anything over 30min it's come back with an error.

[GoneAnon]

RJ2DJ said:

GoneAnon - Thanks, if I have to pay for a solution I will do that!

If you want to pm me the postcode, time and speed parameters I can do them for you. Then figure out an easier way to save/email the maps than screen print and upload to photobucket.

This is an example of the output based on 45 minutes (70 on motorway, 62 on dual-cs, 40 for major roads, 34 for minor roads, and 19 in town). I'd say it's fairly accurate, though I have to make allowances for the fact that my software predates the new Clackmannan bridge and the upgrading of the A80 at Cumbernauld.