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by robertbalent 1722 days ago
That’s a lot of walks!

Is there an app that will generate walking routes, so you visit different streets each time?

If I wanted to develop something like this, where would I start?

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It’s not exactly what you’re after, but this might be a place to start: https://trailrouter.com/

How it works: https://trailrouter.com/blog/how-trail-router-works/

You provide a start and end point and desired distance. It generates one-way or looped walking/running-oriented routes. I’m not the creator, I just use it occasionally.

Looks really cool with interesting options ! I love the "prefer green areas" option.
Don’t know about automatic, but a friend of mine wrote an iOS route planning app that has proven quite popular: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/easyroute/id605127860

He's probably got the chops to do it, but no idea if he'd think it was worth it.