walkit.com

walkit.com joins Flickr, Amazon, Last.fm and Dopplr in being named The Guardian's 100 top sites for the year ahead.

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And the National Federation of Women’s Institutes and the Institute of Highway Incorporated Engineers?

And the BMA Public Health Medicine Committee and the Town & Country Planning Association?

And walkit.com and Cancer Research UK?

Well, this eclectic mix of organisations, plus many many [...]

These are slightly hypnotic, if a little tough on the old eyes.

A photo taken every 5 metres as the walker (author? cinematographer? photographer?) crosses London and Bristol.  Manchester and Newcastle coming in 2009 apparently.

Amazing how green our cities are.

As the [...]

In London on Saturday, the whole length of Oxford Street and Regent Street will be closed to traffic – creating the West End VIP Weekend.

I've been before and recommend it, not least for the slightly surreal experience of witnessing pedestrian [...]

We've had a few chats with Sir Muir – he's a big cheese in the NHS and the walking world.

Here he tells you why walking is the single most important, effective and safest thing you can do for your health.

Are we wiping out history? Well, The British Cartography society has accused internet maps of “demolishing thousands of years of history -not to mention Britain's remarkable geography – at a stroke by not including them on maps which millions of [...]

Trains “packed to the gunwales with perspiring passengers”, traffic lights lingering for an “unconscionable time in red”, new tubes “designed like gigantic worms”, buses like a “queue of expiring whales” (when they are not “chuntering and roaring around”) and a [...]

Hi, I'm Tom and I'm working with the walkit.com team to create the next great version of the site.

My favourite thing is knowing exactly how long walking to work will take …

… so I can try to arrive at work on time.

What [...]

We've now added in a lot more pedestrian data in West London to coincide with the launch of 'pollution-aware' routing there.

For example, Richmond Station to St Margarets Station:

Direct

Pollution aware

You can find an explanation here.

Please give it a go and let [...]