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This new tool layers Wikipedia articles onto a map to make your half-hour walk more interesting

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This new tool layers Wikipedia articles onto a map to make your half-hour walk more interesting

How much do you really know about the world right outside your door? A trending tool has the answers, highlighting all there is to see, do, and discover within a 30-minute walk of your location.

On Local Wiki, users can input their location—either directly or through a postal code, town, area, or nearby landmark—and see a color-coded map of every Wikipedia article geotagged within 30 minutes on foot.

The so-called “encyclopedia for round here” includes everything from local parks to cultural hot spots and even historical events. If it has a Wikipedia entry, it will show up on the map, and thousands of social media users are already singing the site’s praises.

Local Wiki was created by Scottish designer and writer Neil Scott, whose post sharing the project on X has garnered more than 1.4 million views in just over a day.

Forget 15 minute cities, here is everything that is on Wikipedia located within a 30 minute walk of where you are:https://t.co/oRsYGmwehL

Scott tells Fast Company that his version of Local Wiki builds on a concept by his friend Ed Jefferson, who created a more traditional wiki restricted to the Wikipedia articles geotagged within 1.5 miles of a given location. “I’m a visual person, so I wanted to see where all those places sat on a map,” Scott says over email.

As a self-described psychogeographer (someone who studies the connection between environments and human behavior) and flâneur (someone who walks through urban settings observing the hustle and bustle around them), Scott takes special interest in the stories of the places around him.


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