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Originally Posted by Roody
I think the site is a little crappy. It missed dozens of locations in my hood, including 2 supermarkets that are closer than the one they did list. Also a bigger hardware store closer than the listed one. they listed a couple crappy restaurants and missed a score of good ones.

If you want to know how walkable your neighborhood is, just take a walk!
I believe that is the general consensus I suppose the website might get people to thinking and looking further than the end of their car key. So it may be a good thing. I have yet to find a perfect mapping program and I use several of them. DeLorme used to be one of the best but even they have issues with not putting things where they belong.

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