Close.City - Travel Time Map
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Close.City - Travel Time Map
A nice tool someone made shows how far parts of the city are from different amenities. It's configurable so you can decide what matters in determining walkability. I like it a lot more than sites like walkscore.com which have a fixed definition of walkability.
Interestingly, with my filters above, only core Brookside gets <5 min travel times. The downtown loop gets penalized because there is no elementary school.
You can try it out here:
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Re: Close.City - Travel Time Map
There are two elementary school campuses in the downtown loop (crossroads academy) and more in real downtown. I think that site is cool but seeing a lot of people saying it's not very accurate. I haven't messed with it to know for sure.
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The creator had an update to improve some of the data recently. At first no parks showed up near me, now that's been fixed. I think it's just a matter of finding a good data source for this.KCPowercat wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:52 pm There are two elementary school campuses in the downtown loop (crossroads academy) and more in real downtown. I think that site is cool but seeing a lot of people saying it's not very accurate. I haven't messed with it to know for sure.
I think charter schools is its own category separate from ordinary public school.
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cool, yeah I see that is separate now, seems weird. It is a fun tool and glad to hear the data is improving. thanks for sharing.
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Re: Close.City - Travel Time Map
I love how the Indian HIlls Country Club is basically a walk-centric zone. Kind of ironic, but it's true how convenient everything in the Village is to that part of Mission Hills.