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Old 05-08-2008, 02:13 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I just learned about this and thought it is worth passing on. If you're on a computer, you've likely used mapquest, google maps, or yahoo maps to get directions at some point. None of these systems have available bike route maps.... yet.

There is a site called http://www.bikemetro.com/ that has a bike routing feature for OC and LA counties. It's limited the area covered and isn't 100% reliable (It's been down several times over the past few months).

There's a petition to add a "bike there" feature to google maps, being headed up by a group in Austin, Texas. They've also got some pics of Lance's new shop on their home page right now.

http://googlemapsbikethere.org/

You can sign their petition, asking Google to add the bike-specific features, at:

http://www.petitiononline.com/bikether/petition.html

From the site, it looks like the City of Austin is working with google to make it happen, but nothing concrete yet.
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Old 05-08-2008, 02:59 PM   #3 (permalink)
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thanks. have signed the petition before. took a look at the site and put in my commute. pretty much took me the way I have done it before but was hoping for something a bit safer as it can get way sketch imo. again thanks - good stuff
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Old 05-08-2008, 08:40 PM   #8 (permalink)
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signed, this would be very cool indeed.
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I just learned about this and thought it is worth passing on. If you're on a computer, you've likely used mapquest, google maps, or yahoo maps to get directions at some point. None of these systems have available bike route maps.... yet.

There is a site called http://www.bikemetro.com/ that has a bike routing feature for OC and LA counties. It's limited the area covered and isn't 100% reliable (It's been down several times over the past few months).

There's a petition to add a "bike there" feature to google maps, being headed up by a group in Austin, Texas. They've also got some pics of Lance's new shop on their home page right now.

http://googlemapsbikethere.org/

You can sign their petition, asking Google to add the bike-specific features, at:

http://www.petitiononline.com/bikether/petition.html

From the site, it looks like the City of Austin is working with google to make it happen, but nothing concrete yet.
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did you post this on the other boards? both have commuter sections and this would be par for general discussions, lounges and passion hits.
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Old 05-09-2008, 09:50 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Old 05-13-2008, 08:27 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Seen this?

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