Stories from Google Maps "Bike There"
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How do we get bikes taken seriously (by all advocates)?
Google Maps "Bike There" &bull Jul 13, 2010
I expect resistance from drivers, the auto industry, the AAA, etc., but I don't want to expect it from advocates who are generally pro-livable streets. This is a serious problem for us. I don't know the answer to this question. We managed to get Google to take bikes seriously enough to integrate them into Google Maps, but far too many transportation advocates still, it seems to me, look at bikes as an afterthought, if at all. The evidence for this assertion is really just everything that I read and see from the Streetsblog Network each day. I at least skim… Full Story »
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How do we get bikes taken seriously?
Google Maps "Bike There" &bull Jul 13, 2010
I expect resistance from drivers, the auto industry, the AAA, etc., but I don't want to expect it from advocates who are generally pro-livable streets. This is a serious problem for us. I don't know the answer to this question. We managed to get Google to take bikes seriously enough to integrate them into Google Maps, but far too many transportation advocates still, it seems to me, look at bikes as an afterthought, if at all. The evidence for this assertion is really just everything that I read and see from the Streetsblog Network each day. I at least skim… Full Story »
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The Google Maps Biking Directions Ad
Google Maps "Bike There" &bull Mar 25, 2010
I think the ad is kind of nifty, and I still can hardly believe it's real. One place I know I've seen the ad is over on this bikeportland.org post. Anyways, saved for posterity's sake. Full Story »
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Topics:
- bicycle
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Why Google Maps' New Biking Directions Could Be Huge
Google Maps "Bike There" &bull Mar 21, 2010
Other websites already provide biking directions, including ridethecity.com and mapmyride.com. However, Google being Google, the introduction of Google biking will attract a larger audience, or at least anyone who Googles the word "bike." Ideally, Google's heft could also influence city planners to create more bike lanes and more-reluctant bikers to put on a helmet and get peddling. And coupled with the greatest biking incentive in the world - warmer springtime weather -… Full Story »
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Ride The City Adds Austin
Google Maps "Bike There" &bull Jul 13, 2009
Ride the City, who originally provided mapping directions in New York City, followed by Chicago, now provide bike directions for Austin — that bike-crazy town smack dab in the middle of Texas: Even if you haven’t been there, you might… Full Story »
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Goroo.com - Universal (?) Trip Planner for Greater Chicago
Google Maps "Bike There" &bull May 20, 2009
Built by a $1 million federal grant to Greater Chicago’s regional transit agency, the RTA, this planner will eventually/allegedly include car, bike, walk, and mass transit directions. Right now — no bike directions. Read more about it, here. Or, just… Full Story »
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Topics:
- bicycle
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Vancouver Cycling Route Planner
Google Maps "Bike There" &bull Apr 29, 2009
The University of British Columbia has a ‘Cycling In Cities‘ research program that produced, among other things, a cycling route planner based on Google Maps. Cool stuff. And the CBC got some of our tech/research heroes on camera: Vancouver Cycling… Full Story »
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Topics:
- Smith
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Suggest a Feature for Google Maps!
Google Maps "Bike There" &bull Mar 20, 2009
The Google Maps Help section has a ‘Send Feedback‘ link that allows you to vote for new features you want to see on Google Maps. One of them is called ‘Add bike trail information and biking directions’. Please feel free… Full Story »
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Topics:
- bicycle
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Meals on (Two) Wheels
Google Maps "Bike There" &bull Nov 6, 2008
Great story in the Portland Observer about some Meals on Wheels folks who decided they only needed two wheels to do what they do: Kyle Lyles, 65, has reinvented the concept of meals on wheels. Three times a week, he… Full Story »
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What To Do About Older Drivers?
Google Maps "Bike There" &bull Oct 12, 2008
The author of Traffic says this: An interesting piece from the New York Times on the growing problem of handling older drivers who shouldn't be behind the wheel. It's quite striking how people, in the U.S. at least, take driving… Full Story »
