As a new resident of this fair city, I have often wondered how I can get to my destination using the available bike path network. The city provides some great paper and pdf network maps and even plans to create a bike-route-finding website (aka on-the-fly directions for cyclists) later this year. But I think there is still a need for integrating the network maps with a web search engine like Google Maps. Well, Google has recently implemented Google My Maps and I have started using that freely-available tool to start building an overlay on Google Map search results. You can read about it and see the current state of the project at the Cycling in Boulder blog.
If you are interested in contributing to the data in Boulder, please let me know. And if you are interested in doing something for a bike path network in your town that would be great, too! I have two ultimate goals:
- get people onto their bikes
- have a large enough interest in something like this that Google takes note and introduces searchable/traceable bike path networks into their Google Maps data.
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I read your post with interest and wondered if you had seen this particular use of Google Maps:
http://www.walkjogrun.net/
Not cycle paths but might give you some ideas as to how you could evolve your own network maps.
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