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How Alive Maps picks a walk

Every street segment around your walk gets scored for the things that make walking good: parks and street trees, water, old buildings and public art, and the cafés, bars, markets and shops that make a street lively. Busy traffic counts against a street, and car-free streets get a little bonus for calm.

The score depends on when you leave. Cafés count in the morning, bars and restaurants in the evening, markets on weekend mornings. After dark, unlit park paths count against a route. At golden hour, open streets that face the sun get a bonus, and on hot days shade counts for more.

Then it searches for the walks that buy the most aliveness for the fewest extra minutes, and lets you choose how far along that trade-off you want to go. The aliveness score (0 to 100) compares a walk with the streets around it.

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