Credits & Thanks
We owe a huge thanks to a few people and projects who’ve helped bring Walkmates to life — often without even knowing it.
Project Credits
🧢 3D Ghost Avatars
Ghost with Top Hat 3D Avatar
By Noby Grand.
This little creation is the beating heart of our Ghosts feature. Whimsical, playful, and packed with personality — it helped set the tone for everything that followed. Thank you.
🗺️ Imagery
Geograph.org.uk
Your incredible archive of photos has been the backbone of Walkmates’ hill and trail coverage. We’ve pulled in tens of thousands of images thanks to your work — and honestly, we couldn’t have built this without you.
💼 Startup Support
Big thanks to Microsoft for backing Walkmates through their Founders Hub program. The Azure credits and tools gave us space to build, test, and scale without stressing the wallet.
We started on a scrappy VPS — now we’re running on proper Azure cloud infrastructure, with a little help from their AI stack too. Couldn't have done it without the support.
Personal Thanks
These are mine — not from the company, not from the brand — just from me, Paul.
❤️ For My Wife
Thanks for the patience, the belief (even when it wobbled), and letting me disappear into this thing night after night.
I know it’s cost us time — I just hope one day it buys some back.
🚀 AJ – Co-founder
For saying “mate, this is a startup” when I was still calling it a side project.
You built the app, pushed the pace, and lit the fuse. Here’s to the rocketship — and the yacht.
🐾 For My Dog
To my old border collie — long gone now, but still with me on every walk.
You waited patiently when I was slow, pulled ahead when I found my stride, and never once questioned why we were out in the rain again.
This whole thing is a tribute to the walks we shared.
May every walker who uses this site have a friend like you.
UK region map and boundaries
The UK outline and regional walk filter use the nine English regions plus Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from the Office for National Statistics December 2025 boundary datasets. The display outline is simplified for broad discovery; it is not a detailed navigation map.
Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.
Source datasets: Regions (December 2025), ultra generalised boundaries and Countries (December 2025), ultra generalised boundaries. See the ONS digital boundary guidance and geography licence and attribution terms.
Photographs and other mapping retain their individual source and licence credits where they appear.