Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Walk Score keeps getting better, and it was already very good. With assistance from the Rockefeller Foundation, the locational rating system has now incorporated transit service data from 40 metro regions into its service, so that its maps...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
I've reported a couple of times before about Walk Score, the handy-and-getting-handier tool for calculating the convenience of a given location to typical destinations like shops, restaurants, schools, parks, libraries, and so on. The more destinations within walking distance, the...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
Walk Score, the fab and fun folks who use Google Maps data to rate the walkability of locations and neighborhoods (my home address gets an 80 out of a possible 100) has done it again. This time they have ranked the...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
This is way cool. Walk Score, the Google-based freeware that allows you to pick a spot (such as your home or office) and find out how it compares to others with regard to its proximity to walkable destinations, has now...continued→
