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Overview

Streets & tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors

Ledbury Street Coverage

Every street inside the boundary, split into walking units, in the shortest order found.

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Steps to cover every street

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Distance

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Time

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Units walked

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Repeat walking

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Doors

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Monte Carlo search

Least repeat walking

Repeat walking comes from dead ends and from intersections where an odd number of street sections meet: each one forces a section to be walked twice. The search below keeps the same streets to cover and tests every setting that can cut the repeats.

Where the repeats are

Turn-by-turn legs

How to use it

Check the dashed boundary. Press Edit boundary to drag its corners onto the real area.
In Parameters, set the unit length, your stride and which streets count. The route recalculates after every change.
Press Find least repeat walking and apply the option that saves the most.
Out walking, follow the orange leg and press Next leg at each turn. Press I'm here to centre the map on you, and Follow me to move the orange dot along the route as you walk. To put the dot somewhere yourself, drag it, or press Move dot and tap the route. Your place is remembered.
Press ▶ on the map to preview the whole walk, and ? for keyboard shortcuts.

Door checklist

Not on the route

Doors come from OpenStreetMap addresses and buildings. A building with several mapped addresses counts as several doors. Buildings with no address count as one door each. Apartment buildings count as one door.

Units and pace

Unit length (m)Each street section between intersections is split into whole units close to this length. A 140 m block at 50 m becomes 3 units.

Stride length (m)

Walking speed (km/h)

Stop time per new unit (s)Time spent at doors along each newly covered unit. Repeat walking has no stops.

What counts as covered

Edited sections

No edits

Use the Edit button on the map to paint over street sections: Skip means the route doesn't have to walk them but can pass through; Remove means they are never used.

SidewalksBy the houses: for every stretch with doors on both sides, the planner chooses between one pass crossing the street between houses and walking up one sidewalk and back down the other, whichever is shorter with the crossings counted.

Cost of a street crossing (m)How much walking one crossing is worth, with the wait. Busy streets: raise it, so the planner prefers walking each side.

Boundary ruleDecides which street sections at the edge of the boundary must be walked.

Street types to walk

Doors Plan door to door

Time per door (s)Added to the time estimate for every door on the route.

Smallest building (m²)Buildings with no address that are smaller than this are treated as sheds or garages and skipped.

Farthest from street (m)Doors farther than this from a street on the route are listed under "Not on the route".

Include businesses and other buildings Plan door by doorEvery door is a stop. The street route gives the first order, a Monte Carlo search shortens it, then each 150 m is put in its best order, coming back for a door when that is shorter. Route by doorsWalk only where the doors are: streets with no doors become shortcuts, and dead ends stop at the last door. Streets with no houses on the map stay on the route, marked Check. Off: walk every street.

Ways that can have houses

Houses join the nearest of these. A type you tick here that isn't in "Street types to walk" is walked only where it has houses, such as a lane or footpath that some front doors face. Types you already walk always count.

Unnamed ways can have houses

Route shape

FinishFinishing anywhere skips the walk back and is usually shorter.

StartAuto tries the starting points and keeps the best one. A loop is the same length from any start, so auto picks the start with the fewest turns. A route that finishes anywhere gets the two ends that make it shortest.

Allow shortcuts on streets outside the boundary

Shortcut-only paths

Paths you don't have to cover but can use to avoid walking a street twice. Footpaths between cul-de-sacs and through parks often save the most. Types already in "Street types to walk" are covered anyway.

Solver

Monte Carlo trialsEach trial builds a random pairing of dead ends and odd intersections, then improves it by swapping partners. The best trial wins.

RandomnessHow many nearest candidates each pairing step picks from. 1 is plain greedy.

Random seed

Route orderings triedSame distance, different order. The ordering with the fewest legs (turns) is kept.

Boundary

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Copy gives the corners in the format you pick. Paste and Open file read any of these formats, and GeoJSON from geojson.io or Google My Maps KML works as is.

Data margin (m)Extra street data loaded around the boundary so shortcuts outside can be used.

Map display

Map coloursA light map reads best in sunshine and a dark one at night, whatever the rest of the app uses. The Day / Night button on the map switches it too.

Base map

Satellite imageryBest available tries Google if you added a key, then Esri Clarity, Esri World Imagery and Sentinel-2, tile by tile, so gaps in one source are filled by the next.

Google Map Tiles API key (optional)

Uses Google's official Map Tiles API under your own Google Cloud account and terms. The key stays in this browser and is never put in settings files.

Open here in Google Maps Open here in Apple Maps

Apple doesn't offer satellite tiles this page can load, so these links open the same spot in each app's satellite view.

Look-ahead (m)While walking, this much of the route ahead (or up to the next house, whichever is longer) is drawn bold and colored, fading out with distance. Orange is a new street, purple is a repeat.

Fade the map beyond the look-ahead while walking

Fade markers beyond (m)Intersection markers and door dots are fully visible while 100 px of screen covers this many metres, or the distance to the next house if that is longer, and fade out as you zoom out to twice that.

Show base map House numbers Tint houses by leg Double-tap a house to mark it done Unit ticks Street names Odd intersections Parking Tuck the bottom bars away while moving the map Keep screen awake Overview minimap Minimap when the map scrolls away

Settings files and setups

Saved setupsDefault settings are always here. A setup stores only what you changed, so it keeps working after the planner is updated.

Name for this setup

Include door marks and notes in the export

The file is readable Markdown with a settings table and a JSON block. Files from older and newer versions of the planner can be imported: settings it can't use are listed and skipped, and settings from newer versions are kept. You can also drop a settings file anywhere on the page.

Settings as text

About this app

Street data

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Load streets by hand

If live loading is blocked here, open the query in a browser tab, save the result, then import it.

Open the OpenStreetMap street and house query for the current boundary.
Save the page (it is JSON), or select all and copy it.
Import the file or paste the text below.

Export route

GPX and GeoJSON open in most walking and mapping apps. The GeoJSON also holds every door in walking order. The CSVs list every leg, and every door with its status.

Street data from OpenStreetMap may miss new streets, private lanes or paths. Check the boundary against the real area before walking. The solver searches for the shortest covering walk; the result is near-optimal, not proven optimal.

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Keyboard shortcuts

→ ←: Next or previous leg
Shift+→: Step 10 m along the route
Home End: Start or finish of the route
D N S: Next door: done, no answer, skip
X G: Next door wrong; whole row done
U: Undo the last door mark
W: Start or end the walk
H K: Show the next house on the map; turn tap-to-mark on or off
T O Shift+F: Hide or show the map tools, turn the walking focus fade on or off, full-screen map with a pull-up panel
E: Open or close the section editor; in it, 1 to 4 pick Pan, Skip, Remove, Restore, [ and ] change the brush size, Ctrl+Z undoes a stroke
V: Switch base map: streets, satellite, hybrid
C: Centre on the walker and keep following
Q: Lasso: draw a loop to mark an area walked
A: Show or hide parking
Y: Set where you are: tap the route next, or drag the orange dot
P , .: Play or pause the route preview; slower and faster
Z F: Zoom to the current leg, or fit the boundary
+ −: Zoom in or out
[ ] R: Turn the map, or reset to north up (Shift+scroll also turns; two fingers turn on touch)
L: Start or stop location tracking
M Shift+M: Show the overview minimap, or minimise the whole map to it
B: Edit the boundary (Ctrl+Z undoes a change)
1–4: Route, Doors, Parameters, Data tab
Esc: Close popups and leave editing