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Google maps for cyclists?

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  • 28-11-2008 12:01pm
    #1
    TinyExplosions
    Registered Users Posts: 6,860 ✭✭✭


    Petition here to get google maps to add features for cyclists!


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    smithslist
    Registered Users Posts: 618 ✭✭✭smithslist


    TinyExplosions wrote: »
    Petition here to get google maps to add features for cyclists!

    petition signed....thxs for the notice TinyE


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    TinyExplosions
    Registered Users Posts: 6,860 ✭✭✭TinyExplosions


    smithslist wrote: »
    petition signed....thxs for the notice TinyE

    No problemo!


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    stuf
    Registered Users Posts: 578 ✭✭✭stuf


    How long would it be between Google Maps implementing the feature and bike forums being full of posts along the line of
    random future poster wrote:
    fcuking google maps! they told me that road x was a good road but I was nearly mowed down by a bus because the cycle lane had a tree in it and I had to cycle on the road. good job I was/wasn't[delete as appropriate] wearing a helmet otherwise I'd be dead now. If I had/hadn't[delete as appropriate] gone through a red light earlier on my journey it would have been worse


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    blorg
    Registered Users Posts: 15,989 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    Google Maps walking directions work quite well for cyclists I find, certainly out in the countryside. They tend to emphasise short distance and avoiding main roads.


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    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,068 ✭✭✭buffalo


    http://www.opencyclemap.org/

    Although the data isn't great in Ireland so far, if anyone on here has a GPS receiver, they can help make it better.

    An open source community effort (deriving from http://www.openstreetmap.org/) to map all the cycle lanes. Worth a look at places like Oxford or Rotterdam to see what the end result can bring.


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