Differences in child-drawn and GIS-modelled routes to school: Impact on space and exposure to the built environment in Auckland, New Zealand

•Use of online participatory mapping to measure children's travel routes to school.•About 50% of the child-drawn routes were spatially matched with GIS shortest routes.•The built environment differed between child-drawn routes and GIS shortest routes.•Active travel routes in pedestrian network were more similar to child-drawn routes.

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