How walkable is your neighborhood?

[Ecthy]

This machine knows no shopping malls. For Potsdam it didn't recognize a single one when it should have 2, same for grocery places. Only recognizes Real, I wonder why it doesn't find Kaufland

[Harovan]

This machine knows nothing, and what it knows, is wrong.

"Next school" - says 4 km, but we have two in our own village.

"Next library" - says 17 km to some "Heinz Walz GmbH" (which is unlikely a library), even though we do have a library 100 meters from my home.

"Next bookstore" - points to Brauhaus Höchstadt, 19km away. A Brauhaus is a brewery, not a bookstore. And it isn't even the next brewery; I have 2 of them within 100 meters.

"Next drug store" - points to Rossmann some 14 km away, while we have a Schlecker market in our own village.

And so on...

[Dinner]

I suspect it has trouble with mainland Europe. Works well for North American addresses and seems to work well in the UK.

[Kontiki]

It most definitively does not work well for Canada.

[Dry]

Walk Score: 54 out of 100
But I agree with posters above:
The so-called nearest grocery store is NOT the nearest one.
Neither is the so-called nearest drugstore.
The bookstore is indeed a bookstore... well, specialized in old, medieval books.
The 'clothing & music' is in fact a locksmith

[Jonny]

Home in outer suburban Nashville: 0/100 (which is accurate, too - about the only thing within 2 miles is a bank and a gas station)

At school: 60/100


Being raised where I have, it's no wonder I want to actually live in a city for a while...

[GePap]

I got 94/100, but then of course I live in Manhattan, so it's clear my neighborhood was going to get a huge score.

I do agree with there being many problems in the locations it picked to establish that score, like labelling a local public library as part of the Brooklyn Public Library, which is wrong, its part of the New York Public Library (NYC has three independent public Library systems), and it's choise of nearby theater makes no sense. Also, its a bit outdated because the local hardware store it notes went out of business months ago.

[Space05us]

54/100 here. I would love to experience 100/100 as I think my area is great for walkers. Anything you might need is within 4 miles.

[GePap]

I think the point is to have anything you would need within a mile or less, fully accesible purely by walking.

[Space05us]

Originally posted by GePap
I think the point is to have anything you would need within a mile or less, fully accesible purely by walking.

Was looking at it and just noticed that. A mile is nothing though, especially to someone who walks frequently.

[GePap]

IIRC the average adult walks at between 3 and 5 MPH, so a mile is between a 12 to 20 minute walk for most people - I guess it is an issue of not only being able to walk somewhere safetly but also in a reasonable amount of time. MOst people won't walk for an hour to go grocery shopping (and then walk an hour back).

[b etor]

i walk about 5.5 mph, but my parents walk at 4 so that sounds right.

[Cort Haus]

82, which isn't too bad seeing as it missed most of the stuff around here.

The feeble machine only gave 75 for my old address, which had about a thousand things within two minutes walk, including one of the largest markets in Europe.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by b etor
i walk about 5.5 mph, but my parents walk at 4 so that sounds right.

Sorry, that is very unlikely. Nobody walks at 5.5mph over any meaningful distance and outside of competitive walking.

[b etor]

i used to walk fast so i wouldn't have to walk with my parents around our neighborhood, so now i still walk like that. i do it on treadmills too.