Do your know your neighborhood's walking score?

I quite like this little web app I came across.

It helps you to evaluate somewhat objectively how walkable a neighborhood is.

This is a fun app to explore your current home and the homes of your friends -- and it may turn up some surprises. (It can turn up small establishments down a side street you had never explored. Who knew we had so many shops within a mile of our house?!?!)

But it really comes into its own of you want to relocate!

Of course, it can't be completely objective. It's a web app. It thinks a gas station food mart is a grocery store and a coffee roaster in an industrial neighborhood is a coffee shop. It also doesn't take into account sidewalk access, traffic speed, or the challenge of getting across bodies of water sand expressways, so you would still have to go and look. But it's one more tool. And overall, it does seem to do pretty well.

While you're over there, you might also want to check out their blog. It's full of news and you can come away with a whole new understanding of why all this matters.