The appy wanderer: smartphone walking in our cities' green spaces - News Summed Up

The appy wanderer: smartphone walking in our cities' green spaces


Go Jauntly is a new walking app that uses photographs rather than maps to guide users on routes around woods and byways. We put it to the test in south LondonThe business of social walking is setting off into a largely unexplored area of navigation. This means that in a stroll of, say, two hours, there will be between 20 and 40 guiding pictures. Even taken together with the adjacent Dulwich Woods, it is little more than a tiny wedge of green in London’s vast sprawl. As she describes it, the detachment of town dwellers from walking is comparable to that of London from its rich and often hidden parcels of green.


Source: The Guardian January 02, 2018 06:22 UTC



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