Wandrer [0] is a good site if you want to do something like this in your own town. It integrates with Strava and automatically imports your walks/rides and tracks your progress on the map, which lets you see where you’ve been and what streets you still need to conquer.
It doesn’t have any routing features, so you’ll still have to plan your own routes, but it is pretty mobile friendly.
Over a decade of commitment to the task itself, diligent blogging of the whole experience, and a website design that brings me back to my favorite time on the web. Beautiful.
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Selectively using per capita rate ignores density, misleading for street-walking risks where per mile metrics show higher danger:
City Homicides (2024) Street Miles Homicides per street mile
Chicago 573 4000 0.143
Philadelphia 246 2500 0.098
NYC 377 6000 0.063
Dallas 220 3900 0.056
Houston 322 6000 0.054
Los Angeles 260 6500 0.040
San Antonio 160 4000 0.040
Phoenix 190 5000 0.038
Jacksonville 140 3900 0.036
San Diego 35 2800 0.013
US Total - - 0.0046
US Rural - - 0.0006
idea, we should make a "feel good" website similar to https://slowroads.io/ that literally lets you autopilot your car through every road in new york. hell scale it up to every road in the world. have a system to track how many kms / miles has been driven and the drivers with the highest scores. Even Ad companies at some point would be interested in showing ads every few kms which can be circumvented by a paid sub
I like this idea. I've often used StreetView to go back to places where I used to live or work to see what they look like now. This could be an extended version of the same thing.
Wandrer [0] is a good site if you want to do something like this in your own town. It integrates with Strava and automatically imports your walks/rides and tracks your progress on the map, which lets you see where you’ve been and what streets you still need to conquer.
It doesn’t have any routing features, so you’ll still have to plan your own routes, but it is pretty mobile friendly.
0: https://wandrer.earth
This is inspiring.
Over a decade of commitment to the task itself, diligent blogging of the whole experience, and a website design that brings me back to my favorite time on the web. Beautiful.
[Edit for format] Selectively using per capita rate ignores density, misleading for street-walking risks where per mile metrics show higher danger:
HN-favourite Tom7 made a great video about running every street in his native Pittsburgh and tracking it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c8i5SABqwU
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34168284
idea, we should make a "feel good" website similar to https://slowroads.io/ that literally lets you autopilot your car through every road in new york. hell scale it up to every road in the world. have a system to track how many kms / miles has been driven and the drivers with the highest scores. Even Ad companies at some point would be interested in showing ads every few kms which can be circumvented by a paid sub
I like this idea. I've often used StreetView to go back to places where I used to live or work to see what they look like now. This could be an extended version of the same thing.
Amazing project. I would not be surprised if https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Transcendence_3100_Mile_R... was a natural next "step".
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NYC's homicide rate is lower than that of the USA as a whole. Violence is very avoidable, especially during the daytime.