A geographer wants to help people find their feet by mapping the best routes to walk between towns.
Would you know the best way to walk from Leeds to Manchester? From Tring to Milton Keynes, or Carlisle to Inverness? If not, then you're not alone.
However, once you venture away from your local neighbourhood, it is not always obvious how to find the best walking route to a nearby village or - if you are feeling adventurous - a neighbouring town or city. That's what is hoped will be solved with the slow map.
The project has the backing of the Ordnance Survey, which is planning to add the slow routes to its online database.People were exploring their neighbourhoods on foot in a way that was, to many, entirely new. The slow map grew out of people's desires to roam further from their doorsteps.
No one in the project is expecting large numbers of people to give up on cars and walk from city to city on a daily basis. But they hope that it can highlight thousands of shorter routes, making it easier to see how villages and settlements connect with one another.It is not just a tool to encourage us to walk more, it is a campaigning tool. Once a route is identified, there is something to defend and to improve. It is then more than just a new resource, it is a way of trying to change a debate.
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