On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:32:56 +0100, "John Rowland"
wrote:

Peter Frimberley wrote:

Surely anyone with half a brain would consult something like
streetmap.co.uk if they wanted a walking route between points they
know to be less than 20 minutes apart.

Streetmap doesn't give walking routes AFAIK.

Of course it does, you just glance at the streets shown and see which
ones lie roughly along the straight line connecting the two points you
wish to travel between. Dead End streets are also shown as such if you
look closely. If your two points are so far apart that they can't fit
on one screen of streetmap.co.uk then MOST people aren't going to walk
that journey.

Or have people forgotten how to read simple maps so that they need a
website to find a route for them? Blimey.

You are being unnecessarily facetious.

If so, I'm not alone.

It's a public TRANSPORT website. Walking isn't a method of public
transport - it's a method of SELF transport. You are complaining about
it not doing something that really isn't in it's remit. The fact that
it may formerly have given some walking directions is irrelevant; as
of today, it tells people what public transport to get, and that's all
it needs to do.

If you are serious about needing a website to give you a route between
two nearby points, then try htt://www.viamichelin.com - there you can
set "on foot" or "on bike" as the method of travel. It's route-finding
engine may be based on roads that cars can drive down though, so I
wouldn't be surprised if it misses some handy cut-throughs that are
pedestrian only.