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The Year of Living Car-lessly Experiment
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Googling Google
Way back in April, Sightline launched the quest for a walkshed map that would tally and locate all the businesses within one mile of your front door (plus, ideally, things like public restrooms). It would be a Rosetta stone for the newly car-less--a digital Fodors for the pedestrian set. (With its instant quantification of the walkability of each home, it could also be a real-estate game changer. Imagine if realtors, while showing off homes, bragged as much about their walkshed score as the quality of their local schools!)
The quest for the map has proceeded ever since, valiantly surmounting one obstacle after another (more on that, in a moment). But then, just as victory seemed within our grasp, the quest suddenly faltered. Our fearless band of heroes was surrounded and outnumbered, abandoned by a presumed friend.
Now, our only hope is you: that’s right, you and your social network. Sightline is in search of an inside man or woman: a software engineer with a pedestrian heart and a mapping mind; an engineer, specifically, at the Kirkland development office of Google (or perhaps on Microsoft’s Live Local team in Redmond). Do you know that cubicle knight? Can you get him or her to rescue us? Hurry!
Here is our epic tale.
