The roads should be scored for safety for biking and walking so that you can adjust the route to suit your preferences (like not riding your bike next to a bunch of 18 wheelers). Now that essentially all of America has been mapped and remapped and digitized, what’s needed is for the geeks to go back and work with pedestrian and bike advocacy groups to encode data about all those roads for each city and town so that if you want to walk or bike or use transit, the system only “sees” those roads and transit routes, so it never tells you to take your bike on the Capitol Beltway, for example. The point is that the mapping services have spent a gazillion dollars giving us a service that is really only aimed at helping us if we drive. Avoid high speed traffic whenever possible.Walking (avoid high speed traffic whenever possible).Walking (on streets with sidewalks only).So the winning online mapping service would offer you choices of mode like this: To support our nonprofit environmental journalism, please consider disabling your ad-blocker to allow ads on Grist.
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