09-28-2018, 08:07 PM
(09-28-2018, 06:59 PM)plam Wrote:(09-28-2018, 05:30 PM)Spokes Wrote: Wasn't there a tool that you could put your address in and it would measure walkability? Does that still exist? Is it accurate?
walkscore.com. It's not bad.
It has very high internal validity, I believe it's based on Google Maps data, which is pretty good.
It only measures the proximity to places, it's missing a lot of other factors accessibility, safety, pedestrian friendliness. But such is the case of data, you measure what you have easy access too.
I suspect it's a moderately good analogue, places with a lot of close-by retailers are likely to be walkable by virtue of they aren't aggressively zone separated or sprawled. It was a really interesting research project to read about.