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What’s Your Walk Score?
25Jul2007 Filed under: Reviews Author: F. Morgan WhitneyWhen technology meets geography, I get very excited. Toss in the concept of sustainability/green concerns and I get even happier. In that vein, I stumbled across Walk Score today. You put in your address the site maps various types of businesses near your home and calculates an overall score. If you choose to live near more businesses, your score gets higher.
Improvements:
One problem with walkscore is the distance between your location and the resource appears to be determined mathematically by examining the latitude and logitude of the two locations. This is fine, if your’s superman. Unless I can jump over rivers, scramble over buildings and cross private property, the math doesn’t work out. I assume the problem is that there is no data out there for determining how far it is to walk somewhere, only to drive. Maybe that alone should give us cause for concern.
My Scores:
- Home (Denver): 54/100
- Home (NJ): 15/100
- Work: 14/100
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Wella
December 6th, 2007 at 4:13 am
I believe that walk score is cool, but nowadays more and more people prefer to drive cars. Homes are often located in an area where some establishments are easier to get to by car than on foot. I’ve recently found a type of service on [link removed] which is called Drive Score. It shows a map of what establishments are in your neighborhood and calculates a Drive Score based on the number of places within a convenient driving distance. It doesn’t mean that drive score is better than walk score – they are equal and both necessary in the modern world!
F. Morgan Whitney
December 6th, 2007 at 9:17 am
I removed the links in Wella’s comment for two reasons. First, I think it was a blatant advertisement for the site he is talking about. Second, the whole philosophy behind the walk score is to help people find ways to spend less time in a car, not more.