[NameError]

I think the fun/hobbyist/urbanist answer is that people just like to know facts about where they live, I've spent hours now looking up different places' data. The more commercial answer if I were pitching this as a product is that 'who lives within X minutes of this point' is a big question in CRE site selection etc if e.g. you're deciding where to expand a franchise. The walk-time version is more of a fun demo of the engine than anything else.

Thanks for the feedback! The site (and I suppose this post) doesn't really do much to answer "what's the point?"

[janrakete]

I know people who work in urban planning, and they find this also generally interesting because the data and its visualization can be used to identify areas where action is needed in terms of local transit planning.