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As of this week, we’re delighted to announce that we (finally!) cover walking routes in Liverpool here on walkit.com.

It's been a long time coming, and we've received a lot of encouragement from our users and potential users to get this [...]

Our friends at Living Streets are organising a challenge for walkers of Britain this May. Here's what they have to say about it:

This May, national charity Living Streets is urging people across the country to take to their feet [...]

Last year academics at the University of the West of England interviewed a number of walkit.com users as part of the first phase of their Ideas in Transit research project.

This year they are looking to investigate motivations and experiences in [...]

Regular walkit.com users Lucy and Nick Russell are taking sabbaticals from work in order to complete a 6-month walk across America. They are hoping to raise money for their charity The Pamir Trust, and to raise awareness of the [...]

There’s a lot of talk at the moment about the shocking state of London’s air (and failure to improve it).

There is a lot of good work going on in London, funded by various Boroughs and TfL, but questions have been [...]

Rohan – purveyors of outdoor clothing, equipment and footwear – have announced a new programme to help people walk for exercise more and in some case start walking for fitness in the first place.

The initiative is based on research commissioned [...]

We came across this great little video review of our iPhone app yesterday, from the nice people at Frackulous.

As they say:
“Walking does not kill polar bears, does not encourage laziness, and does not result in you getting stuck in traffic [...]

Charlie Doherty contacted us yesterday for help with a problem he was experiencing with our new iPhone app.

During our conversation, it transpired that Charlie, along with his mum, is at the beginning of a 4 week expedition to cycle from [...]

The UK is experiencing one of the wettest summers ever. But have you got your waterproofs packed? City worker Adam of GO Outdoors explains why waterproof clothing is so essential for this summer.

Wherever you go in London, you have to [...]

And not just the navigation section, but the whole thing!

The 2011 user survey results are in. It ran for 3 weeks in June, and many thanks to the 338 people who completed it. Some headline results:

Nearly 70% said that walkit.com had encouraged them (at least once) to [...]

Guest blogger Adam Smith of GO Outdoors walks a near-perfect circle around central London (giraffe and all)

One wet and windy Sunday morning in June I was invited on The London Circle Walk and found myself standing on Tower Bridge at 10am, [...]

This is Bernie Spain Gardens in central London:

And we're May – what's it going to look like in August?!

In fact, Bernie Spain Gardens is a gem, even in drought:

So if you're trailing down London's South Bank, and want a bit [...]

Nice idea, but difficult not to conclude that it's completely inconsequential in the face of wider trends in China: