# Walkably free GIS sample

Walking scores of Hamburg and Barcelona as map cells you can open in QGIS. Each cell is six-sided, with 55 m sides, about 95 m across.
Built 2026-11-08 from the scores the Walkably map shows (OpenStreetMap data of 28 October 2026 and 30 October 2026).

## Files

- `walkably-sample-hamburg-barcelona.gpkg`: the GeoPackage, coordinates in WGS 84 (EPSG:4326). Use this one first.
- `walkably-sample-hamburg-barcelona-epsg3035.gpkg`: the same layers in EPSG:3035 (metres, the Europe-wide equal-area grid).
- `cities.csv`: the city table as CSV (UTF-8, comma, dot decimals).
- `CREDITS.md`: all credits.
- `SHA256SUMS`: checksums of the files.

## Layers in the GeoPackage

- `hamburg_cells`: 62,211 cells. The city-state of Hamburg, area from the OpenStreetMap administrative boundary (ODbL).
- `barcelona_cells`: 11,124 cells. The municipality of Barcelona (the city proper, not the towns grown into it), area from the OpenStreetMap administrative boundary (ODbL).
- `cities`: a table with one row per Walkably city page (556 cities in 31 countries), the same as `cities.csv`.

## Fields of each cell layer

- `score` (number): Walkably score of the cell, 0 to 100 (60% Reach, 40% street quality; street quality under 40 caps it at 69).
- `reach` (whole number): Reach, 0 to 100: how well the cell reaches the eight daily needs on foot over real streets.
- `street_quality` (whole number): Street quality, 0 to 100: how pleasant and safe the streets around the cell are to walk.
- `country_percentile` (whole number): Share of the country's street cells (0 to 100) that score lower than this cell.
- `min_groceries` (number): Walking minutes to the nearest food shops (80 m a minute). Empty: no place found within about 1.76 km of streets; a found route can take longer.
- `min_eating` (number): Walking minutes to the nearest places to eat and drink (80 m a minute). Empty: no place found within about 1.76 km of streets; a found route can take longer.
- `min_shops` (number): Walking minutes to the nearest other shops (80 m a minute). Empty: no place found within about 1.76 km of streets; a found route can take longer.
- `min_health` (number): Walking minutes to the nearest health care (80 m a minute). Empty: no place found within about 1.76 km of streets; a found route can take longer.
- `min_education` (number): Walking minutes to the nearest schools (80 m a minute). Empty: no place found within about 1.76 km of streets; a found route can take longer.
- `min_green` (number): Walking minutes to the nearest parks (80 m a minute). Empty: no place found within about 1.76 km of streets; a found route can take longer.
- `min_culture` (number): Walking minutes to the nearest culture (80 m a minute). Empty: no place found within about 1.76 km of streets; a found route can take longer.
- `min_transit` (number): Walking minutes to the nearest public transport (80 m a minute). Empty: no place found within about 1.76 km of streets; a found route can take longer.

All numbers are estimates. An empty minutes value means no place of that kind was found within about 1.76 km (22 minutes at
80 m a minute) of streets from the cell; a route that was found can take longer than 22 minutes.

## Open it

QGIS: Layer, Add Layer, Add Vector Layer, choose the .gpkg file, tick the layer. Set the colour by `score`.

## Licence and credit

The data is shared under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/. You must show this credit line with any map or copy you share:

> Contains information from Walkably, https://walkably.org, available under the ODbL. Contains information from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright, available under the ODbL.

If you share a changed version, it must also be under the ODbL. Other sources behind the scores are listed in CREDITS.md.