Google maps adds bike routes

Pete Zicato · 03-10-2010, 09:23 AM

http://www.pcworld.com/article/19115...ogle_maps.html

Nifty.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-10-2010, 09:59 AM

Dogs are going to love this.

piercehawkeye45 · 03-12-2010, 01:34 PM

Nice. This will make it a lot easier to get around this summer.

Griff · 03-13-2010, 07:08 AM

This has potential.

monster · 03-13-2010, 07:40 PM

All y'all are extremely optimistic! I love googlemaps, but it's still pretty dodgy on limited access interchanges (especially multi-level ones) and one-way streets. There are many bike routes in my city -google already directs cars down a few of them- I'mma let you finish, but.....

jinx · 03-13-2010, 07:42 PM

If it just directs the bikers off the windingest of local roads, with cliffs on one side and rivers on the other, I wouldn't hate them nearly as much....

Bruce 9012 · 03-13-2010, 10:15 PM

This area is louse with bike paths. Just look up Dayton metro parks. Oh yeah i live in downtown dayton oh

Pete Zicato · 03-21-2011, 04:45 PM

Google maps for bicycles are improving. I just had it plot a couple of routes for me. It used bicycle paths where possible and low-traffic streets where it wasn't. I had no idea there were so many bicycle paths near me.

monster · 03-21-2011, 09:03 PM

I used it a little in the summer and was more impressed than I thought I'd be, but it wasn't da bomb. One of the biggest problems was the main road crossings. It'd find a nice route on each side and link them by having you cross where there's a high curb with no cut in a 5-lane 55 zone with no pedestrian crossing in the middle of an industrial zone.

03-10-2010, 09:23 AM	#1
Pete Zicato Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB. Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Chicago suburbs Posts: 2,916	Google maps adds bike routes http://www.pcworld.com/article/19115...ogle_maps.html Nifty. __________________ Talk nerdy to me.

03-10-2010, 09:59 AM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Dogs are going to love this. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-12-2010, 01:34 PM	#3
piercehawkeye45 Franklin Pierce Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,695	Nice. This will make it a lot easier to get around this summer. __________________ I like my perspectives like I like my baseball caps: one size fits all.

03-13-2010, 07:08 AM	#4
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	This has potential. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

03-13-2010, 07:40 PM	#5
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	All y'all are extremely optimistic! I love googlemaps, but it's still pretty dodgy on limited access interchanges (especially multi-level ones) and one-way streets. There are many bike routes in my city -google already directs cars down a few of them- I'mma let you finish, but..... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-13-2010, 07:42 PM	#6
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	If it just directs the bikers off the windingest of local roads, with cliffs on one side and rivers on the other, I wouldn't hate them nearly as much.... __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

03-13-2010, 10:15 PM	#7
Bruce 9012 Living in the blast crater Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Dayton, Oh Posts: 123	This area is louse with bike paths. Just look up Dayton metro parks. Oh yeah i live in downtown dayton oh

03-21-2011, 04:45 PM	#8
Pete Zicato Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB. Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Chicago suburbs Posts: 2,916	Google maps for bicycles are improving. I just had it plot a couple of routes for me. It used bicycle paths where possible and low-traffic streets where it wasn't. I had no idea there were so many bicycle paths near me. __________________ Talk nerdy to me.

03-21-2011, 09:03 PM	#9
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I used it a little in the summer and was more impressed than I thought I'd be, but it wasn't da bomb. One of the biggest problems was the main road crossings. It'd find a nice route on each side and link them by having you cross where there's a high curb with no cut in a 5-lane 55 zone with no pedestrian crossing in the middle of an industrial zone. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

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