Comments on: Measuring Walkability with Walk Score

By: Andrew Kyle

Andrew Kyle — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:12:48 +0000

Walkscore is brilliant! I’m a Realtor in Calgary Canada and I just added it to all my listings this morning!

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Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:18:15 +0000

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By: Wella

Wella — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:37:30 +0000

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 drivescore.fizber.com 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!

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By: Monmouth NJ Real Estate

Monmouth NJ Real Estate — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:03:39 +0000

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By: Barrett Niehus

Barrett Niehus — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:08:15 +0000

It’s actually a pretty cool concept. When I was on their site, I kept getting an error message on my address. Hopefully they can work out the bugs.

-4MySales

By: Alice M

Alice M — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:28:48 +0000

I just tried to check my home’s “walkability” and got a message that they’ve used up their google maps limit. Methinks they need to work on their scalability.

By: Bronte Media » Walkability

Bronte Media » Walkability — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:03:58 +0000

[...] Cool new real estate site covered by Joel over at FoREM that aims to measure a home’s ‘walkability’. That is, the ease in which you can walk to life’s necessities: wine, beer, porcini mushroom and good coffee. [...]

By: Philippe Marson

Philippe Marson — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:20:41 +0000

Well, there’s certainly something to be said for simplicity.

Their “patent-pending algorithm” looks at the distance to nearby stores, schools and other features (courtesty of Google), and gives more points to places that are closer. Genius!

Unfortunately, they admit that they don’t figure in whether there are sidewalks, freeways, or other impediments (note the wordplay, please), or even calculate the distance via roadways (they use “as-the-crow-flies”, not “as-the-user-walks.”

So you can live in a beautiful tree-lined neighbourhood, made for evening strolling and morning jogging, and your address could garner a dismal score if there is no McDonalds and 7-11 next to your house.

Hmm…
Flawed at best, misleading at worst.
Sometimes simple is best, but sometimes it is just plain… simple-minded.

By: Galen

Galen — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:17:35 +0000

Hot – I like the concept a lot. I like sites that clearly solve real people’s problems. It’s rather amazing how few startups end up doing that.