Patrick Says

Karen Goodman posted an article this evening about a very cool website and one of the best Web 2.0 uses I’ve seen in awhile. It’s called Walk Score and you enter an address and it gives you a score based on the proximity of restaurants, bars, grocery stores and retail businesses near the address.

Very cool.

So, I checked my home address. I knew it was going to be bad because I live in an area fairly far-removed from the city and also, we have no actual sidewalks. Anyway, yeah, it was 14 of out of 100, which translates to ‘car-dependent’. That’s accurate.

I also checked my work address and got a very respectable 82 out of 100, translating to ‘very walkable’. But I kind of expected that as I’m across the street from a mall (albeit, a nearly dead mall).

So, what’s your Walk Score?

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Tags: maps, web 2.0

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