Three Hundred Walks

I'm a big fan of walking. I had to quit running because of my knees, so walking and hiking became my new exercise, when I lived in NYC, I would average 100 miles per week, when I moved up state, a lot less, but still 50-60 miles per week, and then I moved to back to Texas last week and now I feel like it will be closer to 20 miles a week if that. I live on a major road, there aren't many places to walk around me, so might end up in the Apartment gym on a treadmill staring at the wall for my morning, lunch, and dinner walks.

I use CityStrides to map my runs, it makes an automatic lifemap from my running app I use on my phone (runkeeper): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;citystrides.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;citystrides.com&#x2F;</a><p>Even without colours Neds maps have some nice esthetic to it.

That’s a lot of walks!<p>Is there an app that will generate walking routes, so you visit different streets each time?<p>If I wanted to develop something like this, where would I start?

Did the same, no cloud, plotting on top of open street maps, automated logging.<p>Excerpt from the result (don&#x27;t want to disclose where exactly I live): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;FPyRAkA.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;FPyRAkA.png</a><p>My setup for it:<p><pre><code> - andoid app tasker (checking if I loose wifi, in that case start GPSlogger) - android app GPSlogger does the logging, set to relatively coarse in hopes to save battery) - and visualize on my computer with this python script http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sethoscope.net&#x2F;heatmap&#x2F; (with a custom gradient that has no transparency. I want to see where I&#x27;ve been just once too. </code></pre> You can also render it on android with GPX Viewer but loading takes a long time once you got a bunch of tracks.<p>It&#x27;s tough on your phones battery though. I think I pushed my aging one over the edge with it.

I’m boring. I walk the same 2.18 miles every morning.<p>Been doing it for years. Never thought of logging it.

Its interesting to see that Ned never walked through the esplanade. He&#x27;s walked right up to the edge and always turns away. It&#x27;s not that much further than some of his other walks. Overall it looks like he&#x27;s avoiding the back bay area entirely.<p>This is interesting b&#x2F;c the esplanade is a pedestrian park with some beautiful water areas and bridges, its prime walking area.

Is there any program&#x2F;app that could automate this, not just for runs but constantly? It&#x27;s all being tracked anyway, so I might as well at least get a map of which streets I&#x27;ve walked out of it.

I used to live very close to where all the walks start. I would say it’s one of the best places to start exploring Boston. That is, along the Emerald Necklace.

Very cool. Great inspiration to start walking more.