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If I'd seen that I'd never have walked from Marble Arch to Aldwych. I'd have taken a bloody taxi.
Alan | Homepage | 07.02.07 - 7:30 a.m. | #
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They seem to suggest walking along Oxford Street. Are they insane? You'll never get anywhere due to the brownian motion of tourists.
ian | Homepage | 07.02.07 - 9:30 a.m. | #
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I agree with Ian - the words "pedestrian" and "Oxford Street" should never, EVER be in close proximity.
Luke | Homepage | 07.02.07 - 10:03 a.m. | #
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Wigmore Street - the true Londoner's way of getting along Oxford Street.
Adrian Zmed | 07.02.07 - 10:54 a.m. | #
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Ah, but if they put it on tourist maps then people would use it...
Alan | 07.02.07 - 12:41 p.m. | #
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Without looking: If you're going to Regents Park Zoo, what's the nearest tube station that you should use?
If the map can make it easy for tourists with that one, then it's doing a good thing.
geofftech | Homepage | 07.02.07 - 3:05 p.m. | #
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Of course, what we'll all be needing tomorrow is a London skiiers' map.
quin | Homepage | 07.02.07 - 5:28 p.m. | #
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Oooh, that's rather good, and has the potential to be marvellous. This website http://www.walkit.com/ is also a many-splendoured thing of wonderfulness. It's a London pedestrian route planner, although it is still in Beta, I believe, so it might be a bit flaky.
rosamundi | Homepage | 07.02.07 - 5:49 p.m. | #
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Definitely a work in progress (the Regent's canal walk just hangs in the middle of nowhere) but a brilliant idea, and I hope it goes somewhere...
Now a similar idea for the cyclists?
disgruntled commuter | Homepage | 07.02.07 - 7:07 p.m. | #
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Well, it's a good idea, but imperfectly executed, although granted it's still a work in progress. As someone who frequently walks around London, I think the biggest flaw with the map is that most of the so-called "pedestrian routes" shown are, in fact, main roads - not necessarily the quickest and almost certainly not the most pleasant route for pedestrians. Breathing in fumes walking along the Euston and Marylebone Roads in particular? No thanks - and no need, when there are many more pleasant roads parallel with them a block or two south.
Venichka | 07.02.07 - 8:07 p.m. | #
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Or, of course, you could just take a stroll and *learn* the quickest routes without relying on Shoreditch consortia.
Inspector Sands | Homepage | 07.02.07 - 8:43 p.m. | #
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Lol 30 years to knock up something that could be done in an afternoon, great work guys.
Kevinho | 07.02.07 - 11:14 p.m. | #
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Once again, DG is haunting my attic. During my recent visit to London, I stayed on Goodge Street in Fitzrovia, which despite its very central location, is an 'in-between' place that I had never visited being mostly a tourist. While suffering the chagrin I felt upon realizing how long it had taken me to figure out just how close Goodge Street is to Covent Garden (4 days - one day longer than it took me to pronounce Goodge correctly); it occurred to me that while the Tube-Map is very useful in helping you understand how to get from A to B on the Tube, it's bloody useless in directing you if you walk. In steps DG with the perfect solution.
Noel | Homepage | 08.02.07 - 12:11 a.m. | #
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"a many-splendoured thing of wonderfulness" - can we quote you?!
Even we wouldn't say that! But we're getting there, slowly.
Sorting out a definition for 'nice' routes, attributing it, and then getting the algorithms to work is tricky.
But please stick with us.
Jamie | Homepage | 09.02.07 - 6:33 p.m. | #
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Interesting link - but I see - surprise - that South London is a grey misty area.
elaine | 09.02.07 - 9:07 p.m. | #
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"a many-splendoured thing of wonderfulness" - can we quote you?!
Of course you can. I've been raving about your website to everyone in the entire world (well, that part of it who regularly takes the Tube from Oxford Circus to Great Portland Street, anyway) since I found your site!
rosamundi | Homepage | 10.02.07 - 12:34 p.m. | #
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