Walking Maps

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2024-04-30 19:30:08

I’ve always thought it would be a fun ‘side quest’ in life to try to walk as much of the planet as possible. Walking several hours every day is an amazing routine, and visiting every street is really the only way to experience a city to its fullest. So over the past decade I’ve GPS-tracked over 35,000 miles of walking in dozens of countries and cities.

At first I considered literally going the ‘every street’ route, in which I cross off every street of a given city. I haven’t fully abandoned this goal, but the thought of endless residential neighborhoods, freeways and frequent dead ends makes the idea unappealing. The goal of this project is to enjoy the experience, and doubling-back on a cul-de-sac is not fun. So at the moment, this project’s goal is to walk ‘every interesting street’ of my favorite cities, with ‘every street’ TBD.

I’m still deciding what approach I want to take to sharing this data. The drawback here is privacy, so I’ve abandoned plans to make an interactive map. For now I’ll just manually update this page with a few of my favorite maps, like some sort of art project.