Anyone Spot The Improvement to the Google Bicycling Map Engine?
Hints:
- the change is extremely helpful when planning a route in urban/suburban areas;
- it's something we've taken for granted (but the engine never would);
- it's about damn time;
Anyone?
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Permalink Reply by Adam "Cezar" Jenkins on -
No idea what you're talking about. You should just come out with it.
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Permalink Reply by Chris C on -
Just because you can't guess what it is doesn't mean the rest of us can't have our fun.
I've been playing with it and unfortunately it's not consistent. Sometimes it maps through them, other times not.
Here's a hint: it begins with the letter "P" and rhymes with barking lot.
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Permalink Reply by Daniel G on -
Not me, and I use it quite a bit. I've always found GMaps bicycle mapping very safe and useful. Haven't noticed any changes. Come on, lets hear it.
btw, just discovered this script to convert to google maps routing to .gpx. Works like a charm.
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Permalink Reply by Chris C on
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Ok fine. The bicycle route map engine is able to utilize (cut through) parking lots. Like I said, it's not consistent.
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Permalink Reply by Adam "Cezar" Jenkins on
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If it's parking lots. Maps has always been able to do that. Though the lots weren't mapped. Now some are.
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Permalink Reply by Steven Vance on -
I recommend staying out of parking lots because of the extremely low visibility a car driver has when backing out their car from a parking stall. In addition, drivers are concentrating on finding the best space and not necessarily looking for things that aren't other cars or people walking to/from cars.
I've never been routed through a parking lot (with Google Maps) and this is one more reason I will continue to avoid using Google Maps as a bike route-suggester. I don't like being routed through parks, either. If it was possible to toggle these as options, I'd find GMaps more useful.
Ride The City uses OpenStreetMap data and its own routing engine (well, it's probably based on an existing OSM routing engine).
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Permalink Reply by Adam Herstein (5.5 mi) on -
I've noticed that it lets me bike the wrong way on one-way streets now. It still always wants me to take the Lake Front Trail though, even if its a few miles out of the way.
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Permalink Reply by Adam "Cezar" Jenkins on
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Actually, when editing google maps google.com/mapmaker you can chose which directions a bike can travel. Whoever input that street put that bikes could travel a->b and b->a.
Adam Herstein said:I've noticed that it lets me bike the wrong way on one-way streets now. It still always wants me to take the Lake Front Trail though, even if its a few miles out of the way.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on -
google maps has a school boy crush on the lakefront trail, non of the other routes compare to the lakefront in its eyes.
Adam Herstein said:I've noticed that it lets me bike the wrong way on one-way streets now. It still always wants me to take the Lake Front Trail though, even if its a few miles out of the way.
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Permalink Reply by Joe Lyons on -
I've sent them route corrections. When it routed bikes down four blocks of alleys, they responded with a correction. When it routed bikes the wrong way down a one-way street, they sent a response stating my information couldn't be confirmed.
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Permalink Reply by Tony Adams 6.6 mi on -
That thing is worse than useless at suggesting a so called "safe" or "safer" route from my neighborhood (McKinley Park) to the Loop.
Steven Vance said:...
Ride The City uses OpenStreetMap data and its own routing engine (well, it's probably based on an existing OSM routing engine).
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