Walkit.com

This article on the BBC News site pointed me to walkit.com/glasgow.

Like most online map and route finders this will find you a route from ‘A’ to ‘B’ however this one is for walking routes and adds information such as:

Distance,
Walking time for fast, medium and slow walkers,
Calorie Burn and
CO2 avoided

Looking up some destinations I know some of the routes suggested seem a little random, so I’m not too sure how useful it would be to find somewhere you don’t know – well you would get there but perhaps not by the best route.  But it is a really good idea, has routes through parks and pedestrian areas which other route finders obviously don’t.

So according to Walkit.com walking home from work is 1.8 miles, could take 27-36min, burning up to 156 calories and saving 0.6kg of CO2.

One Response to Walkit.com

  1. Graham, Any chance you could email me the routes you thought were a bit random and (just in case it’s not absolutely obvious) why you consider them random?

    We’re always keen to get feedback, and we try our best to be responsive to it – and the more detail the better!

    Many thanks.

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