Walking

MAPMYWALK
www.mapmywalk.com
MapMyWalk allows visitors to calculate the distance of a walking route by tracing it on a map; it works for any location in the world covered by Google maps.

WALK SCORE
www.walkscore.com
On this Web site, you can find out how conducive a neighborhood is to walking by typing in an address. Based on the proximity of grocery stores, parks, schools, restaurants, libraries, and more, the site generates a score of 0–100 for the location. The neighborhood’s attractions are also listed by category (schools, coffee shops, etc.) with their distance from the originating address; they are shown on a map of the neighborhood, as well.

(Thanks Cathy A. for sending these to Hodgepodge.)

Here are some other walking websites I found:

http://www.thewalkingsite.com/

http://www.walking.org/

HP reader Sue T. sends along this additional info:

Hi Debbie,
There is also an iPod touch/iPhone app that uses the internal gps to tell
you how fast/far you've gone--if you enter your weight, it even tells you
how many calories you've burned. It works for runners and walkers and I
like it because normal pedometers want you to enter a stride length, and
most of us don't stride exactly x inches every time.

http://www.itreadmill.net/iTreadmill/Home.html