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jan_andreaThis 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 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.