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walkit.com feedback


Submitted by jamiewallace on July 27, 2006 - 17:09.

Comments updated weekly.

  • "A brilliant site and I will recommend it to as many folk as possible" London 
  • "Site is excellent and a very much needed concept. Well done!" London 
  • "I have just come across your site for the first time and think it is absolutely brilliant - what a great idea!" London 
  • "It's a fantastic site by virtue of its simplicity! ... well done on an utterly superb initiative!" London 
  • "I really liked it. I just put in a trial route from Ealing to West Kensington and was really impressed with the calorie detail  the CO2 avoidance and the time depending on pace. I'm both a walker and a runner and i think this is a brilliant idea making walking in urban areas much more accessible." Leicestershire
  • "It is so easy to use, and as far as I can see the only website around. At least the only one that is useful. It is such a fantastic website." London 
  • "I think this is a great idea and will use it the next time I have to travel to London for a meeting" Cirencester 
  • "I think it's a great idea and hope it's a real success" London 
  • "I just wanted to say what an excellent idea walkit.com is..." Isle of Wight 
  • "Your site is brill" London 
  • "It's fantastic, I've already emailed everyone I know in London with a link to it.  This kind of thing has been a long time coming!" London 
  • "This website is brilliant, cheers!! :) " London
  • "An excellant idea and at the moment is being implemented well" Manchester 
  • "I just wanted to say BRILLIANT - you're just what I've been looking for and thanks for putting up such a great site!  I particularly like the walking times and carbon savings, the first is helpful and the second motivating!" Cambridge 
  • "Shout about it - it's the best walking route planner I've found and used" Canterbury
  • "This site is a genius idea really helpful please expand to the rest of the UK." Worthing
  •  "What a great website - i spent ages searching on rubbish maps and other websites trying to find out if i cound easily walk between Victoria and Notting HIll. This gave me the result straight away - easy! Love it!" Brighton
  • "Just come across your website and I have to say it is fantastic!! I look forward to continued use and updates to the website." London 
  • "Tell everyone about it - I think it's a fantastic idea. I was looking for exactly this service when i found it through google." London  
  • "I just wanted to let you know that i really appreciate this website being here! I'm a newcomer to London, and hate using the tube, and cycling seems a bit too dangerous at the moment, so having something like this which shows me how to walk (and how long is will take) from A to B is a god-send." London 
  • "I love your site and love the idea of what you have done.  I would love to see a simillar, perhaps smaller-scale version for the city of Bath" Bath
  • "Your site functions very well.  I think you've hit on the right model - it's easy to use and "uncluttered".  I suspect it will become very popular very quickly.  I hope that you'll maintain the proper database  coding and bandwidth infrastructure to enable the site to perform consistently well as demand grows." London
  • "Being from outside London and terrible with directions the information produced was excellent" Chester-le-Street
  • "I think you have done a damn good job" Cambridgeshire
  • "publicise it more! everyone i've mentioned this to thinks that it's a great idea" London
  • "This is a fantastic idea - well done and good luck with it!  Hope to see it rolled out across the UK soon" Hampshire
  • "Liked the fact that it said slow, medium and fast pace, and the fact that calories burned and CO2 avoided. Makes you feel better" London
  • "the whole concept of the site's a fantastic idea" St Ives
  • "I really think it is probably one of the BEST and most inspiring things I have seen in the last 6 months" Gloucestershire
  • "Advertise it! I found it through Google  but something like this has been needed for a long time. As a frequent visitor to London I'd much rather find ways of walking from one place to another  and until now it hasn't been easy to work out if its possible  so thanks" Lichfield
  • "Advertise more - if possible - the site is a great idea and I came across it quite randomly (sorry  I can't remember how now)" London
  •  “Like it. Good interface, home page design and branding is nice… Well done I think it is great” London
  • "Good luck with the website, it’s a really good idea so hope you manage to get the finance – I’ll definitely be using it in the future" London 
  • "Well done a great site which I wish you all the best with" London
  • "Please please please do birmingham" Birmingham 
  • “I just found your site because I was wondering if anything like it existed.  This is great, but if you can, you should do this for every city, not just London. There are probably people out there who would love to help in building a global infrastructure.”  Canada
  • "What a brilliant idea.  I am full of enthusiasm". London
  • “People at work generally really liked the walkit website. I think the ongoing customisation by its users will improve its usefulness and popularity. Great site name by the way” London
  • "Not good enough! Your site is an inspiration, take heart. It's new and will improve dramatically. It's a great idea. I hope you can manage to keep it afloat" California
  • "I'm loving "Walkit" it is excellent" London
  • “Nice site! I like the graphic design. Has a good professional feel. Fairly simple to use too – which I always reckon to be most important” Hereford
  • “You’re doing a fantastic job keep it up, I'm really very impressed” London
  • “I just looked at your test site.  It’s looking really good.  I tried it out and it worked for me! It did the most important thing which is direct me correctly.  Very very exciting.  I like the top banner as well.  Very slick”  Washington DC
  • “This will be one of the most fun and useful websites once people start contributing to the fine-tuning.  Once your 'improvement' graphic tool is in place I'll certainly add my own contribution for my walking routes” London
  • “Great idea! it works and is accurate! Put in my commute to work and it came up with the exact route I walk with exact times it takes me 13 mins fast 17 mins medium walk brilliant! And the Cals burnt is a master stroke!  Will defo recommend.  Well done” London
  • “A great website generally - about time someone did it”. London
  • “This is a great idea. A lot of visitors to London consider just walking there to be the best thing you can do.” Chile
  • “I actually used the site to help me decide on a hotel location for our next visit to London. We have done all the big museums and will be spending our time on more "out-of-the-way" things and don't need to pay central city hotel rates. Walkit was a great help” Missouri, USA


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tonyplant

July 29, 2006 - 10:22

Excellent, Jamie. Feedback like this must be very encouraging. What is next for Walkit?Tony Happystance



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