Bahahaha. It's shit. It gave my area a 28/100. Where I live now is the most walkable area I've ever lived in. Theres parks, shops, public transport, etc. all no more than at least 7 minutes away. What the hell does it base its score on? Erm, the internet's biggest and most powerfull search engine. ...

Now remember, people, WalkScore is relying on Google for the locations of everything they are searching for. Mind you, it does seem that they might need to filter their "bookstores" results a little better.

http://www.walkscore.com/ has been around for a while, but now it seems to work better for Australian locations. You give it a location, it does a local search for businesses in various categories nearby and the walk score is roughly a count of all the ones in a certain straight line distance. This...

Prince George - I think you may be mixing up speed with caps? But anyway, there is a point that those in the US don't understand; in Australia most of our data comes over the Pacific via the USA. Our ISPs pay big dollars to get that data (which is passed on to the users). Those big dollars go towar...

Since we have a troubled relationship with our brother Melbourne, perhaps we could learn something from our sister Austin :) Austin's population is similar to Adelaides and its density is even lower. Until recently it had very little public transport, which is starting to improve now. It has a very ...

What about a high-adrenalin theme park clustered in a Adelaide Hills or Southern Fleurieu valley? <various dangerous activities> * mountain biking <much less dangerous stuff> Now, mountain biking sounds like an good opportunity. As an example of the kind of facilities Adelaide could aspire to: http...

I'm pretty sure that free WiFi is already available throughout the CBD as part of an ACC initiative. Aha, it's the system-formerly-known-as-Citylan, which is run by Internode. I don't know if this coverage map is up to date https://hotspot.internode.on.net/pdf/citylan-hotspot-coverage.pdf , but it ...

Personally, I find it funny when I look at the "artist's impression" illustrations in plans and concepts. They always seem to be filled with some sort of rent-a-crowd, always with the same characters: the cyclist, the husband and wife pushing a stroller, the young couple overflowing with j...

Greetings all, Having now spent two years living in a city complete with freeways, I'd like to pass on a couple of thoughts about them. First, a real freeway is not a thing of beauty. Sound walls, elevated roadways, overpasses, the on and off ramps -- building freeways has multiple impacts on a city...

* 50% of metropolitan water consumption is residential, 20% for public purposes (parks, etc), wih industry taking 30%. There's probably 2-3 "really big" industrial water consumers around Adelaide - anyone know who they are? I believe your list is: Penrice Soda, Holdens, and once-upon-a-ti...

yeah but imagine 10gb/s! you could literally push a slab of beer cans down the fibre cable at near the speed of light - hang on, that's a great idea..."Beer over IP" aka BOIP :lol: I think you mean 100Mb/s which is 100x1024xbits divide by 8 to get MegaBytes = 12800bytes a second = 12.5Meg...