Walk Score - Location Based Sustainability Mash-Up

Location based services is a rapidly growing online category.  Many of these layer data onto maps to create new and useful tools and applications.  Walk Score is a great example of this trend, and it also leverages the trend towards sustainable living and life practices.  Description of Walk Score from the website:

We help homebuyers, renters, and real estate agents find houses and apartments in great neighborhoods. Walk Score shows you a map of what's nearby and calculates a Walk Score for any property. Buying a house in a walkable neighborhood is good for your health and good for the environment.

While Walk Score is currently focused on how a location relates to services, over time they easily could add information on trails, bike paths, open spaces, public transportation, etc.  It will be interesting to see how this evolves.

Comments

[Mary]

I believe that walk score is cool, but nowadays more and more people prefer to drive cars. Homes are often located in an area where some establishments are easier to get to by car than on foot. I've recently found a type of service on Fizber which is called Drive Score. It shows a map of what establishments are in your neighborhood and calculates a Drive Score based on the number of places within a convenient driving distance.

[Artes]

I think that we need to take both into consideration - walkscore and drivecore. It will show the whole picture...