City Access Map is an interactive map that anybody can use to search out and discover the walkability of cities world wide. Specifically, City Access Map permits you to discover cities during which residents can entry wanted providers inside a 15 minute stroll. City Access Map calls these cities 15 Minute Cities.
You can discover City Access Map by looking by way of the itemizing of cities or by merely panning, zooming, and clicking on an interactive globe. Once you have chosen a metropolis to take a look at it in additional element you may regulate the show based mostly on filters that you choose. Those filters are issues like faculties, hospitals, libraries, parks, and public transportation facilities.
Watch this temporary video for an summary of City Access Map.
Applications for Education
As I defined within the video above, to be listed on City Access Map town must have at the very least 500,000 individuals. That leaves plenty of cities and small cities off the map. That impressed me to consider having college students use instruments like Google Maps and Bing Maps to judge the place they dwell to find out what number of providers can be found to them inside a 15 minute stroll and the way “walkable” their communities are on the whole.
H/T to Maps Mania.