brendannee / walksy

Generates Walking Tours of San Francisco

Walksy

Walksy.com was created for the Google I/O Last Call Maps/Geo Round 2 Challenge by Brendan Nee. The source code is available on github.

Walksy.com makes walking tours of interesting things based on a specified start point.For walking tours staring in San Francisco, the points of interest come from a google Fusion table with hand-picked points of interest in San Francisco, CA by Brendan Nee. For all other starting locations, points of interest are pulled from SimpleGeo's Places API

Demo

A live Demo is available at https://walksy.com

Features

• Elevation Profiles (requires SVG support, not available on Android)
• Smart Mobile layout using Jquery Mobile
• Custom Styled Map
• Powered by Google Fusion Tables
• Points of Interest pulled from Simple Geo's Places API
• Ratings for points of interest from Yelp.com
• Smart optimized routing between all points of interest
• Google Streetview for points of interest

Credits

Brendan Nee [email protected]

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2010 Brendan Nee <[email protected]>

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