TBH kind of disappointed by how little it distorts, especially for cities with stereotypically difficult travel times by car like LA. almost loos like random distortions as opposed to something to pattern match. Really the only thing noticeable is bodies of water distort the map the most (which explains why LA doesn't get that distorted).
Would be kind of nice for when i click the point that all the points distort based on that point instead of globally trying to position each point relative to every other point.
And the fact that the distortion is preset and not based on where you click. This is one of those things using heat maps where the clustering is clearly large population centers. Not really as helpful/useful as people think they are
If the analogy to warped spacetime was exact, then there would be a “scale factor” for every point depending on the local transit speed. Then it would be possible to do as this page does and for the answer not to depend on starting point.
However in the real city the transit speed at any point is not isotropic, the space is 3-D, and some paths are forbidden (getting on-off the train between stops).
Would be kind of nice for when i click the point that all the points distort based on that point instead of globally trying to position each point relative to every other point.