2980 King Street East | 32 & 12 fl

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2980 King Street East | 32 & 12 fl | Proposed

ac3r

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08-13-2024, 12:56 PM (This post was last modified: 08-13-2024, 01:01 PM by ac3r.)

Walk Score is pretty useless. It's run by a massive real estate company that sells mortgage services and stuff and was only ever meant to be a tool for home buyers to use (it was founded by venture capitalists, after all). But that's what makes it bad. It mostly calculates walkability based on distance alone, not how nice a walk will be. Maybe it has chanced in recent years but for the longest time it didn't even take into account whether there are sidewalks or paths, just whether something is close to an address/home. I don't know where they pull data from though I assume it's from numerous sources since they now have transit/crime/walkability scores, but it's basically like just taking Google Maps info either way. It is barely capable of differentiating between similar data sets either (are the grocery stores near you high end stores, or discount stores?).

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