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This is cool.
You put in your streeet address and zip code, and it queries Google Maps to figure out how "walkable" your house and neighborhood are.
Our address right now gets a 78 out of 100, which is absolutely true -- I can walk to a lot of useful places easily, including the school, library, post office, and several cafes and whatnot.
My dad's house gets a 0 out of 100. No surprise there; it's at least 1.5 miles to *anywhere* and those places are meh. Mom's gets a 0/100, too; their nearest thing (the school) is listed as 1.64 miles, and most places are 4+ miles away.
Our old house in Racine got a 40/100. Interesting that our address now is so much more walkable!
What about where you live? If it's walkable, do you?
You put in your streeet address and zip code, and it queries Google Maps to figure out how "walkable" your house and neighborhood are.
Our address right now gets a 78 out of 100, which is absolutely true -- I can walk to a lot of useful places easily, including the school, library, post office, and several cafes and whatnot.
My dad's house gets a 0 out of 100. No surprise there; it's at least 1.5 miles to *anywhere* and those places are meh. Mom's gets a 0/100, too; their nearest thing (the school) is listed as 1.64 miles, and most places are 4+ miles away.
Our old house in Racine got a 40/100. Interesting that our address now is so much more walkable!
What about where you live? If it's walkable, do you?
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Date: 2007-07-30 02:40 am (UTC)But that's not really true. I've walked to and from the garage when the car needed work, and I COULD walk to the grocery store, gas station, and library.
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Date: 2007-07-30 02:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-30 02:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-30 02:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-30 03:00 am (UTC)I think that while it's a helpful metric, it's more helpful in places where there isn't any city planning. :P
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Date: 2007-07-30 03:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-30 03:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-30 03:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-30 04:34 am (UTC)My work got an 11, thanks to a former-gas-station-converted-to-steakhouse, and something that purports to be fitness-related that I suspect is a home-based MLM.
My off-campus apartment in college got an 83, and I walked everywhere. It probably wasn't *safe* to walk everywhere, but that bothered me less then than it would now.
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Date: 2007-07-30 05:14 am (UTC)Ten more months until the lease is up, and then it's back to civilization for me!
The street I grew up on only got a 68, but I see that there's quite a lot missing on the map. I really expected it to be in the 90's.
Thanks for sharing this!
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Date: 2007-07-30 05:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-30 06:50 am (UTC)The old house has no sidewalk to the main street that is close by, and one has to go quite a ways around to get to the "super close" shopping, etc.
The place we live now, you can get to the bus almost instantly, it is half a mile from my mother's house, and there is a cluster of stores/mall/etc. about half a mile away that means one can walk over, spend a LONG time over there without having to range very far, and then walk back.
Our old house, I was doing 3 tanks of gas (minivan) per month.
The new house, once we are settled, I may need one tank per month, maybe.
So my score for the walkability estimate? Meh.
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Date: 2007-07-30 10:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-30 12:44 pm (UTC)Hey Jan, how did DH's trip to Texas go?
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Date: 2007-07-30 06:01 pm (UTC)Taking out the destinations it assumed were within walking range would lower that score considerably.
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Date: 2007-07-30 08:15 pm (UTC)i dont walk as much as i should. too much pain, but at least that park is 2 blocks from me.
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Date: 2007-07-30 09:58 pm (UTC)Boo.
Off topic here...do you have any connections to a place I could a child-sized dressform or mannequin cheap or FREE?
Thanks!