Commutable
Commutable draws a travel-time map from a single point. Pick a place by name or click the map, choose public transport, walking or driving, and every area you can reach is shaded by how many minutes it takes. Typical uses: finding where to live within an hour of an office, or checking how many neighbourhoods a shop can draw from.
It is an interactive map, so it has no plain-text form. Use it at /commutable/.
Shareable links
The map's state lives in its query string, so a link reproduces it:
lat,lng— the pinmode—walkordrive; omit for public transport
Shading shows 15, 30, 45 and 60 minutes. Public transport is timed as arriving at the pin by 09:00 on a weekday.
Example: everywhere within an hour of Central, Hong Kong, by public transport.
How it is computed
- Public transport: Transitous returns every stop reachable within the limit, from published timetables worldwide. Walking then spreads outwards from the pin and from each stop (4.8 km/h, distance scaled by 1.3 for streets, up to 15 minutes from a stop) and cannot cross seas, lakes or wide rivers, which come from the map's own OpenStreetMap water data. Each spot on the map takes the fastest arrival.
- Walking and driving: isochrones from Valhalla on OpenStreetMap roads. Driving assumes no traffic.
- Place search: Geoapify, with Photon as a fallback. Map tiles: OpenFreeMap. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Timetables are schedules, not live running. Where Transitous has no feed for a region, the map falls back to walking only and says so.