2010/3/12 Gregory <[email protected]>:
> Walking isn't just about long-distance stuff.
> Being able to say: x is my starting point and I have [10|30|60mins|...] and
> I am [slow as a snail|average|running from mad mappers], please take me on a
> circular route that avoids busy roads, goes through nice parks, maybe goes
> to places people marked as good viewpoints, and accounts for me being slow
> uphill. That would be really cool like cyclestreets, and worth showing my
> mum (who always says she should go walking).

Actually, academic people have researched in that area already. Two
papers I came across recently by chance are in German only though, but
maybe their bibliographies give further leads to follow:

ftp://ftp.geoinfo.tuwien.ac.at/winter/cziferszky02automatisches.pdf
http://elib.dlr.de/48767/1/Entwicklerforum_2007_Cyganski_.pdf

HTH
  Colin

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