Walk Score is a fantastic tool that does a good job quantifying something very hard to quantify: how walkable an area is. A Seattle condo even advertised its Walk Score as a selling point.

Right now, you can get scores for any specific address, but I’ve long thought that it would be really great to see a map showing walkability across a city. Well, Walk Score is doing just that. They’ve got one for Seattle now, and tell me that many other cities including DC are coming in July.

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Tagged: maps, pedestrians, public spaces, seattle, technology, walk score

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.