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How CityWalker works, walking strategies, and more.
August 2026
CityWalker in four months
1,668 walks, activity roughly doubled, city-download failures down to 26%.
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August 2026
How CityWalker plans a walk
The two route planners: pick a duration and get a loop, or tap a destination and get routed there, both favouring streets you have not walked yet.
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July 2026
Walk every street, for everyone
CityStrides and Wanderer built a community around walk every street, but both need an account and a sync step. Here is why CityWalker skips both.
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July 2026
CityWalker in two months
242 downloads, 49 countries, walk retention curves, and what the numbers say after two months live.
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June 2026
What counts as a street in CityWalker
Every OpenStreetMap tag I decided to include or exclude in the coverage map, and the reasoning behind each call.
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June 2026
How CityWalker divides cities into regions
Why Vienna has 23 districts, Sacramento has 15 neighbourhood groups, and how those boundaries get drawn from OpenStreetMap and city open data.
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June 2026
How CityWalker calculates coverage
What a street segment is, and the simple math that turns segments into your coverage percentage.
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