Walkit is a new online walking route planner to encourage Norwich's residents and visitors to walk more.
Commissioned by Norwich Heritage Economic and Regeneration Trust (HEART), the site also aims to help visitors to access the city’s heritage on foot, enabling visitors to plan walking routes to take in the heritage buildings and places of interest.
The website www.walkit.com/norwich is free to use and can generate a walking map route between any two points in the city. Each route map includes:
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the most direct route as well as a less busy and more scenic one
- the journey's distance
- the time it will take to walk it (at a slow, medium and fast pace)
- the number of calories burned at the different paces
- how much carbon dioxide you’ve avoided producing by not going by car, taxi or bus.
The route planner is part of a wider project funded by the East of England Development Agency which HEART is working on with the landscape team from Norwich City Council.