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Address not found! Typed in my parents' address -- they live in the same town. Got a 46. But honestly, the only thing in walking distance is a fire station, library, and a YMCA, which are all more than two miles away.
The closest thing to my house is a school, horse stables, and a Jiffy Mart. And possibly a soon to be Walmart if Walmart succeeds in fending off the rabid protesters.
Hm. I got 52, but I'm contesting it. I'm across the river from a big town and almost everything is walkable, by my lights. I'm really disappointed to see that they listed the Starbuck's as closest coffee shop when it's really the 3rd away, after 2 closer independents. I walk into town a lot and there's a plethora of choices for everything about 1 mile away. Where I really got hammered is on "grocery store," though - the nearest chain store is a few miles away, BUT in closer than a mile there are a produce market, butcher shop, pasta shop, bakery Italian cheese and wine shop, chocolatier, Indian take-out place, and coffee shop. All independents, though, and maybe that's too hard for this Google app to figure out.
it took me a while to realize that you had to click the arrows to see the full listing of businesses. I could not figure out why the only grocery store it was finding was the convenience store in the lobby of the condo next door when there's a jewel/osco and a treasure island half a block away..
I agree, "Hm." I scored a 9 by putting in only my zip code and a 0 if i calculate with my street address. Actually, according the list of places near me, the closest is 1.39 miles but I've lived here a while and have never heard of it. I've known my location is not "walkable". It would be cool to see a calculator that showed the forested areas one could walk in. My score would rocket to 100!!
International Support: Unfortunately, typing addresses outside of the U.S. currently causes errors. We hope to get international support working soon! After all, we have a lot to learn from the rest of the world about walkability!
So there you go. I guarantee I would get like a ten thousand because my neighborhood is crazy walkable.
Oddly enough, my old apartment in Boca got a 97 (?) but I guess since I lived the only possible place where I could have gotten away without a car for two years - Boca has an itty bitty "downtown" area. My prior neighborhood (still in Boca) gets a 62. My old neighborhood in New Hampshire gets a 12!!
0, which sounds about right. But I also get 0 for my previous address, where there were at least one of every category within easy walking distance. I also put in an address right in the middle of literally dozens of restaurants, shops, cafes etc (including some international chains) and still got 0. maybe "We hope to get international support working soon" means that they have got the address-finding thing worked out since SassHat tried, but there are no business details included. Still, I'm impressed that it found my house using the street address, given that the street numbers were only allocated a month or so ago.
68, downtown San Jose. It totally misses the real movie theater for some reason but it did show a bunch of book stores I didn't know about. It also doesn't include being able to walk to work, which is fairly major.
I put George's address in Ohio in it and got 0/100. But on the farm you need a car to get to the damn mailbox so it's no surprise that nothing else is within walking distance.
40, but I didn't bother looking too far into it when I saw how sparse the map was around my neighborhood. They had maybe a quarter of the actual shops and restaurants that are around my hood.
A miserable 58, but it barely counts since the grocery store they calculated is a gas station, and the bookstore they listed is really an adult novelty shop . . .
My current neighborhood gets an 89, but I notice that the closest businesses (the locally owned grocery a block and a half away, the independent fancy food place with coffee bar around the corner, the little used book store three blocks over) are missing from their lists, and the distance to the nearest school and library are exaggerated slightly.
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