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Comment by secretsatan

8 hours ago

I've been making an app similar to this but for pedestrians. I live in a very hilly city, and google maps will give you the shortest distance between 2 points, but that may involve climbing and descending steep hills even across short distances.

Any savvy resident however knows the location of escalators, lifts and metro stops to bypass that, and all have different allowed times of access and operation.

Once I was visiting Yamaha’s Yokohama office for work, and I found a pedestrian path from my hotel to the office of ~2.5km that never touched a single roadway…

Google Maps absolutely failed.

Would be fun to rig up something for these cities. Which are you in btw?