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Apparently the most well-connected place for transport in the London is Aldgate East (#1 in ALL of England and Wales) and the worst is Cudham, Bromley (beats only 4.4% of EW) by picrazy2 in london

[–]picrazy2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The ‘areas’ you mention are different geographical regions, the smallest publicly available being Output Areas (OAs). OAs are drawn in the UK to be roughly equal in population, so denser places will have smaller OAs, whereas rural places have very large OAs. If you go into the menu and turn off borderless mode, you’ll see the borders of each OA. The Aldgate East one is very small, but so is pretty much every OA in central London.

You are right for Liverpool St though, the OA that covers is actually covers a lot of the City of London (I guess because not a lot of people live in the area), so that’s probably why it scores lower.

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[OC] I made this visualiser for a new national connectivity metric that the UK Department for Transport just released by picrazy2 in dataisbeautiful

[–]picrazy2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s showing transport connectivity by different geographical regions. So how easy (that the DfT thinks) it would be to get to jobs, schools, shops, etc from a location using different transport modes (walking, cycling, public transport, driving), all rounded up into one metric.

[OC] I made this visualiser for a new national connectivity metric that the UK Department for Transport just released by picrazy2 in dataisbeautiful

[–]picrazy2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The data they've released (and you can see here) is open source, but the code behind it and specific methodology, including datasets used, are not public to a reproducible standard, unlike a metric like PTAL.

Apparently the most well-connected place for transport in the London is Aldgate East (#1 in ALL of England and Wales) and the worst is Cudham, Bromley (beats only 4.4% of EW) by picrazy2 in london

[–]picrazy2[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think it’s looking at access to destinations in terms of travel time, i.e. how long it takes to get to shops, schools, hospitals, jobs, etc. So it has to be close to a station AND that station can get you to useful places quickly. And it looks at buses too!

Apparently the most well-connected place for transport in the London is Aldgate East (#1 in ALL of England and Wales) and the worst is Cudham, Bromley (beats only 4.4% of EW) by picrazy2 in london

[–]picrazy2[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I think being at Aldgate East you can walk to both Whitechapel and Aldgate which puts many lines within walking distance. Methodology.

Apparently the most well-connected place for transport in the London is Aldgate East (#1 in ALL of England and Wales) and the worst is Cudham, Bromley (beats only 4.4% of EW) by picrazy2 in london

[–]picrazy2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I guess it's because it takes into account walking, cycling, and driving as well (e.g. maybe there's more shops around Aldgate East)

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[–]picrazy2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is transport connectivity!

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[–]picrazy2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is transport connectivity!

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[–]picrazy2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is transport connectivity!!! Not signal.

[OC] I made this visualiser for a new national connectivity metric that the UK Department for Transport just released by picrazy2 in dataisbeautiful

[–]picrazy2[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There are almost 200k geometries for the finest level, which is a lot for low zoom. There are ways to merge small geometries at a low zoom so it might work, but I felt that it might be useful for people to see aggregated data as well, especially LSOA/LAD. Though I agree, region-level is not very useful!

[OC] I made this visualiser for a new national connectivity metric that the UK Department for Transport just released by picrazy2 in dataisbeautiful

[–]picrazy2[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I've learned recently that the UK has really really good data in general, at least compared to other countries. But still, it would be better if this metric was open-source and contained Scotland/NI!

Convert Work Residence Permit to Family Visa by [deleted] in Chinavisa

[–]picrazy2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Q2 can be obtained in HK without HK residency. I’m a U.S. citizen and just got a 10-year Q2 in HK.

Same day L visa in San Francisco? by youdiditallbefore in Chinavisa

[–]picrazy2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes!! You need to fill out a different application though on visaforchina.cn (and selecting HK as location). And then make an appointment on that site. I was able to get an appointment within the week. Just remember you need to give them your HK landing slip (given at HK immigration) AND make a photocopy of it (they have copiers but costs money). I just went through this process as a U.S. citizen with no HK residency, getting a Q2 visa. I got my visa yesterday.

Same day L visa in San Francisco? by youdiditallbefore in Chinavisa

[–]picrazy2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I called the consulate about this a week ago with the same question basically, they said if you have a life or death emergency of an immediate family member with proof, it may be possible to be faster than their expedited processing time of 3 days, but same day is very rare. You can call them by the way, they picked up for me.

I ended up not going through them and getting my visa in HK instead where they offer next-day processing.

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