One other thing: the site only offers one route for each location. It would be great if it could serve up a variety of walks of the same length/time – so you can plot different walks in your area for your lunchtime.

As you say, we had some capacity problems due to high interest in the new feature. Things should be better now, and we’re working on solutions to try and ensure it doesn’t happen again.

The London Eye problem should be solved too.

You can save London as your ‘home’ city by clicking on the ‘Walk here often?’ button above the map – that way you don’t have to keep on selecting it from the drop-down.