Walk score
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www.walkscore.com[^] This is a pretty interesting use of google map data, the web site gives an address a score out of 100 rating how many services are available in walking distance. My current address in Sydney gets 98 and it's an awesome place to live, we hardly use our car, shame we had to sell :( My previous address in Amsterdam got a perfect 100.
Did you look at what it actually suggested for shop/park/etc etc? It gives me a score of 40, with the following (let's be VERY polite) surprises: "Car dependent" - doesn't know the bus route in the next street. It's less than 1km to the railway station anyway... Distances are all mostly screwed. One shown as 700m is about right; another in the same category is shown as 460m when it's really about 1.3km. Shop data is seriously out of date or worse. There are some listed that have not existed in the nine years I've been here. Plenty that do exist are not shown. Parks - it lists one 1.3km away, totally ignoring two at 100m and 600m. Pubs - gets the first two right, then an unlicenced premises, then a random selection of out-of-town ones, including one I've never heard of, 34.45km away. There must be at least a dozen closer than that. It might do OK in "major cities", but as Christian also found, scores a big FAIL elsewhere. Cheers, Peter
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www.walkscore.com[^] This is a pretty interesting use of google map data, the web site gives an address a score out of 100 rating how many services are available in walking distance. My current address in Sydney gets 98 and it's an awesome place to live, we hardly use our car, shame we had to sell :( My previous address in Amsterdam got a perfect 100.
92 in (mid-town) Toronto. My transit score was 93 ("Rider's Paradise - World-class public transportation"), which is a shame since I choose to drive to work instead of taking the subway and bus. :( /ravi
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Did you look at what it actually suggested for shop/park/etc etc? It gives me a score of 40, with the following (let's be VERY polite) surprises: "Car dependent" - doesn't know the bus route in the next street. It's less than 1km to the railway station anyway... Distances are all mostly screwed. One shown as 700m is about right; another in the same category is shown as 460m when it's really about 1.3km. Shop data is seriously out of date or worse. There are some listed that have not existed in the nine years I've been here. Plenty that do exist are not shown. Parks - it lists one 1.3km away, totally ignoring two at 100m and 600m. Pubs - gets the first two right, then an unlicenced premises, then a random selection of out-of-town ones, including one I've never heard of, 34.45km away. There must be at least a dozen closer than that. It might do OK in "major cities", but as Christian also found, scores a big FAIL elsewhere. Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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www.walkscore.com[^] This is a pretty interesting use of google map data, the web site gives an address a score out of 100 rating how many services are available in walking distance. My current address in Sydney gets 98 and it's an awesome place to live, we hardly use our car, shame we had to sell :( My previous address in Amsterdam got a perfect 100.
42 for me which isn't bad for Southern California ... but it also says if I want to walk to work, it will take me 3:45 while driving is just 20 minutes :doh:
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
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I got ZERO !!!!
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Your score is no better than "pacific ocean"
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Your score is no better than "pacific ocean"
ROTFL - I believe it.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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www.walkscore.com[^] This is a pretty interesting use of google map data, the web site gives an address a score out of 100 rating how many services are available in walking distance. My current address in Sydney gets 98 and it's an awesome place to live, we hardly use our car, shame we had to sell :( My previous address in Amsterdam got a perfect 100.
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www.walkscore.com[^] This is a pretty interesting use of google map data, the web site gives an address a score out of 100 rating how many services are available in walking distance. My current address in Sydney gets 98 and it's an awesome place to live, we hardly use our car, shame we had to sell :( My previous address in Amsterdam got a perfect 100.
My current address in northern Iowa gets 66%, not much walkable, but my home address in India gets 97%.
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42 for me which isn't bad for Southern California ... but it also says if I want to walk to work, it will take me 3:45 while driving is just 20 minutes :doh:
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
Most US cities/towns would score low except those addresses that are right in the middle of downtown.
Regards, Nish
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92 in (mid-town) Toronto. My transit score was 93 ("Rider's Paradise - World-class public transportation"), which is a shame since I choose to drive to work instead of taking the subway and bus. :( /ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
which is a shame since I choose to drive to work instead of taking the subway and bus.
Don't like the bus? I liked the subway but hated the bus, and thus drove to work when I lived there too. Ironically we paid extra rent so we could live at walking distance to a subway station. :-)
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My current address in northern Iowa gets 66%, not much walkable, but my home address in India gets 97%.
HimanshuJoshi wrote:
My current address in northern Iowa gets 66%, not much walkable, but my home address in India gets 97%.
Hey, that's neat.
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www.walkscore.com[^] This is a pretty interesting use of google map data, the web site gives an address a score out of 100 rating how many services are available in walking distance. My current address in Sydney gets 98 and it's an awesome place to live, we hardly use our car, shame we had to sell :( My previous address in Amsterdam got a perfect 100.
Josh Gray wrote:
My current address in Sydney gets 98 and it's an awesome place to live, we hardly use our car, shame we had to sell
If you sold it, how come it's still your current address? Unless you sold it to your new landlord.
Regards, Nish
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Josh Gray wrote:
My current address in Sydney gets 98 and it's an awesome place to live, we hardly use our car, shame we had to sell
If you sold it, how come it's still your current address? Unless you sold it to your new landlord.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
If you sold it, how come it's still your current address? Unless you sold it to your new landlord.
We sold it on the condition the purchser rent it back to us for two months while we look for something else. It's a very wierd feeling to pay rent for a house you're used to owning :)
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
If you sold it, how come it's still your current address? Unless you sold it to your new landlord.
We sold it on the condition the purchser rent it back to us for two months while we look for something else. It's a very wierd feeling to pay rent for a house you're used to owning :)
Ah okay, thanks. To use a bad analogy, it's like getting divorced and sleeping together for a couple of months longer.
Regards, Nish
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Ah okay, thanks. To use a bad analogy, it's like getting divorced and sleeping together for a couple of months longer.
Regards, Nish
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
it's like getting divorced and sleeping together for a couple of months longer.
You're right, there's no love. I didn;t even mow the lawn last weekend!
:-D Anyway, good luck with the house hunt. I hope you find one that suites your needs better :-)
Regards, Nish
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:-D Anyway, good luck with the house hunt. I hope you find one that suites your needs better :-)
Regards, Nish
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Anyway, good luck with the house hunt.
We've found one already, just waiting for the transaction to settle.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
one that suites your needs better
We just needed a bigger one, twins due in < 2 weeks!
Josh Gray wrote:
We've found one already, just waiting for the transaction to settle.
Congratulations!
Josh Gray wrote:
We just needed a bigger one, twins due in < 2 weeks!
Ah yes, a 98 score does indicate something near or in the middle of downtown, and I wouldn't expect that to indicate a big house :-) The twins are your 2nd (and 3rd) kids, right? You have an older daughter? (vague memory). And the twins are girls too? If so you'll basically be living in a sorority house for the next 16 years, outnumbered 4 to 1 :-)
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Josh Gray wrote:
We've found one already, just waiting for the transaction to settle.
Congratulations!
Josh Gray wrote:
We just needed a bigger one, twins due in < 2 weeks!
Ah yes, a 98 score does indicate something near or in the middle of downtown, and I wouldn't expect that to indicate a big house :-) The twins are your 2nd (and 3rd) kids, right? You have an older daughter? (vague memory). And the twins are girls too? If so you'll basically be living in a sorority house for the next 16 years, outnumbered 4 to 1 :-)
Regards, Nish
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Ah yes, a 98 score does indicate something near or in the middle of downtown, and I wouldn't expect that to indicate a big house Smile
It's about 5kms from the centre. There are lots of bigger houses in the area but out of our price range.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
The twins are your 2nd (and 3rd) kids, right? You have an older daughter? (vague memory). And the twins are girls too? If so you'll basically be living in a sorority house for the next 16 years, outnumbered 4 to 1 Smile
Almost right, we have a 2.5 year old son and the twins are both boys. Their mother wants a female dog to attempt to balance things out a bit :)
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Ah yes, a 98 score does indicate something near or in the middle of downtown, and I wouldn't expect that to indicate a big house Smile
It's about 5kms from the centre. There are lots of bigger houses in the area but out of our price range.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
The twins are your 2nd (and 3rd) kids, right? You have an older daughter? (vague memory). And the twins are girls too? If so you'll basically be living in a sorority house for the next 16 years, outnumbered 4 to 1 Smile
Almost right, we have a 2.5 year old son and the twins are both boys. Their mother wants a female dog to attempt to balance things out a bit :)
Josh Gray wrote:
Almost right, we have a 2.5 year old son and the twins are both boys. Their mother wants a female dog to attempt to balance things out a bit
:laugh: Okay so it's going to be like Home Improvement![^]
Regards, Nish
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