"Bike There" Google maps!!!
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redridinghood at 02.28.08 - 11:53 pm
Here is an opportunity to ask the kind and benevolent folks at Google to add "Bike There" as a choice to Google maps along with "drive there" and "take public transportation there.
Sign the petition here and pass it on, I did!!
http://www.petitiononline.com/bikether/petition.html
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sign it!! who signed it??
send it to your friends!!!
redridinghood02.29.08 - 9:44 am
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signed and sent!!
thanks for the heads up RRH!!!
e-rock02.29.08 - 10:03 am
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thats a genius idea,
i hate when i forget to check that little avoid freeway box,
sometimes i map out routes and im halfway through my ride and then i refer to my map and it tells me to get on the the 10 freeway, which probably wouldn't be a good idea
hartwick, youre a pussy02.29.08 - 10:25 am
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there should be an elevation friendly feature too. so you can use the path of least elevation climbs
Roadblock02.29.08 - 11:07 am
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John Hancocked... hu hu hu... cocked... hu...
Rogue Rida02.29.08 - 12:05 pm
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Signed it and I think that it is a great idea for a bike option especially if it gives you and option for elevation data and everything else us cyclist need.
louisbianchirider07.25.09 - 11:48 pm
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lols i signed it
49067. Eddie Palucha
palucha6607.26.09 - 12:00 am
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www.bikemetro.com for now will mostly work.
It gives you the elevation data, but it doesn't give the ability to customize your route by dragging like google maps, so you can avoid hills.
but, I'm sure alot of ya knew that already.
#49068
sparkypinball07.26.09 - 12:31 am
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that's so weird since they have the cyclist option for their pedometer.
Gav07.26.09 - 12:54 am
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did not know its been going on for a year. hope it stil goes through
mechazawa07.26.09 - 1:03 am
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since the bike metro link does not work when i copied and pasted. http://www.bikemetro.com/route/routehome.asp
mechazawa responding to a
comment by sparkypinball
07.26.09 - 1:22 am
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Bikemetro still down. Maybe time for them to rewrite in PHP ;)?
Signed the petition last year (#16422) with this comment:
Use open Wiki-like methods to gather road metrics (bike safety, rider experience level, city maintenance needed, troublespots, etc)
Can't sign again but would have added this, so might someone who agrees do so:
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Los Angeles is huge and while the best do, not all of us can bike from one end to the other and back. Consider adding 'Mixed Mode - Bike + Public Transit' to solve the 'last mile' problem: Offer several transit + bike routes, let user pick a transit selection, edit resulting bike routes.
- +1 on elevation stats (particularly total elevation gain) for bike legs.
OverTheHill responding to a
comment by mechazawa
07.26.09 - 7:54 am
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why doesnt everyone just use mapmyride.com? By far the most robust mapping tool for my bike ive seen... you can even upload routes to your garmin, or sync it with facebook to show off how much you bike :D
robin swabin07.26.09 - 12:12 pm
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i doubt we will see google maps doing good bicycle routes any time soon. A good bicycle routes needs to take into account road conditions (such as quality of the road and room for a cyclist to safely ride on the side of the road), changes in elevation, and avoid hectic intersections.
Basically they would require a ton of data collection from cyclists who ride the streets.
If we had a really good bike route/path/lane system, it would be easy since it would just tell a cyclist the fastest way to get to one of them.
snowcone07.27.09 - 10:48 am
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donMarcos!
Long time no see! Que paso?
Joe Borfo responding to a
comment by donMarcos
07.27.09 - 11:54 am
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mapmyride.com = SUCK
gmap pedometer = suck
google maps = suck
current bike maps in LA = SUCK
EVERYONE TAKE NOTE, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT LA NEEDS:
Portland by Bicycle (NE Area)
Found here
Cannot tell you how useful it is to have a PRINTED piece of paper in your pocket with all the best info on it related to biking. Fuck iPhones, fuck computers, fuck anything that requires interactivity. Pull this piece of paper out of your pocket and generate a route of "low traffic" no hill roads in 5 seconds with confidence. DONE
Oh yeah, main problem is they only have these maps in Portland. But you can get them at every bike store & co-op in the city and they are FREEE. I know right? Ridiculous.
We need maps like the "Portland by Bicycle" maps with low traffic roads off the main streets that people can be informed of and it would be best to have these maps stocked in all the bike related businesses, not just hosted on a website only a few people know about.
This project could start online using google maps "my maps" feature and once enough information is gathered we could generate area maps for cyclists in LA.
Kinds of information that we would need to gather for each area of town:
-bike shops
-bike co-ops
-smooth low traffic roads
-safe bike paths
-dangerous intersections
-narrow roads
-bumpy roads
-hills
jonnyboy07.27.09 - 12:18 pm
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That's a really cool idea and all, but this isn't Portland.
Joe Borfo responding to a
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07.27.09 - 12:26 pm
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I think we could pull it off here, and there are a million of those "gem" roads hidden off the beaten path.
jonnyboy responding to a
comment by Joe Borfo
07.27.09 - 12:31 pm
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It's a matter of exposing good roads to bike on and making them known to all cyclists. Then it seems to me like people wouldn't think it's so bad to bike in this city which would put more and more people on bikes instead of cars.
jonnyboy07.27.09 - 12:33 pm
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Make it happen? I want one of these maps laminated in my pocket now.
And yes, Fuck iPhones.
Joe Borfo responding to a
comment by jonnyboy
07.27.09 - 12:33 pm
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mapmyride sucks big time! I can take about five minutes of all those ads on the page. Then I'm outa there, never to come back!
User1 responding to a
comment by robin swabin
07.27.09 - 12:38 pm
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Borfo I'm sure you know a great deal of the good roads to bike on, I'm going to look up a way to have a group managed map that we can all add this information to- almost like a wiki but a map.
If anyone has any exp with this please speak up!
jonnyboy responding to a
comment by Joe Borfo
07.27.09 - 12:38 pm
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I'd be glad to help. I believe there are existing LA bike map PDF's online that we can improve, no?
Joe Borfo responding to a
comment by jonnyboy
07.27.09 - 12:42 pm
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at least mapmyride shows you where bike shops are.
Gav responding to a
comment by User1
07.27.09 - 1:17 pm
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