Walk It: Mapquest for British walkers

Google has added public transit info for some cities, although it looks like we'll have to wait a little while before Google Transit expands beyond a limited number of cities. And HopStop gives you transit and walking directions in a limited number of US cities.

But so far most services that provide directions online assume you're driving a car. Mapquest, Google Maps, and pretty much everybody else calculates time based on driving time, and distance based on streets. If you try to follow those directions on foot, you could end up on the highway, or at the very least going unnecessarily out of your way to follow one-way streets.

Walk It is aimed squarely at people on foot. It only covers a few British cities right now (Edinburgh, Birmingham and central London). It'd be nice to see someone develop one service that can provide driving, walking, and public transit directions fro a whole country. But until then, it's nice to see services like Walk It pop up to fill the gap.

One thing that's a bit odd about Walk It's map is that you pull the scrollbar on the left down to zoom in, and up to zoom out, which is the opposite of Google Maps, Mapquest and other services.

[via AppScout]

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