Walk it

Simon Brunning points out a new service called Walk It which gives directions for pedestrians, much in the same manner as Google Maps does for cars. Mr Brunning gives a good overview of it, especially pointing out its fault in having no easy URL hackability. I must admit I still expected it to prefer a pedestrian option within reasonable limits, but no, it does the whole journey on foot, and gives helpful stats into the bargain. So, my trip home should take me a whisker over 12 hours walking fast, although I will burn off 3911 calories (approximately 17 Mars bars) in the process. The Google Maps equivalent is here (1 hour 24 minutes); the public transport version is 1 hour 20 minutes (using Transport Direct which doesn’t seem to have reusable URLs either).