Generate a Walking Tour of Notable Buildings

Use GeoNearest to retrieve notable buildings in a radius of 1 km around Boston City Hall.

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position = Entity["Building", "BostonCityHall::96t3t"]; radius = Quantity[1, "Kilometers"];

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nearMe = GeoNearest["Building", position, {All, radius}]

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Plot those buildings on a local map, using built-in icon entities.

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iconItemPairs = With[{icon = EntityValue[Entity["Icon", "Museum"], "Image"][[1]]}, MapThread[{#1, Graphics[{EdgeForm[Black], FaceForm[#2], icon}, "ImageSize" -> 25]} &, {nearMe, RandomColor[Length@nearMe]}] ]; legend = Column[ Row[Reverse@#] & /@ (MapAt[CommonName, #, 1] & /@ iconItemPairs)]; Row[{ GeoGraphics[{EdgeForm[Darker[Orange]], Orange, GeoDisk[position, radius], GeoMarker[position, "Color" -> Red], GeoMarker @@@ iconItemPairs}, ImageSize -> 400], legend }]

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Use TravelDirections to compute a walking tour of those entities.

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tourPlaces = Prepend[nearMe, position];

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{distance, tourPath} = FindShortestTour[GeoPosition /@ tourPlaces, 1, Length@tourPlaces]

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travelDirectionsForPath = TravelDirections[tourPlaces[[tourPath]], TravelMethod -> "Walking"]

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Row[{ GeoGraphics[{ Thickness[0.01], Darker@Red, GeoPath@travelDirectionsForPath, EdgeForm[Darker[Orange]], Orange, GeoDisk[position, radius], GeoMarker[position, "Color" -> Red], GeoMarker @@@ iconItemPairs }, ImageSize -> 400], legend }]

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These are detailed instructions on how to follow that path.

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travelDirectionsForPath["ManeuverGrid"]

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