Even though I haven’t updated it since February, I still get a lot of email and web traffic because of a Durham cycling map I made last year. At the time, Google Maps had just released its API to allow developers to experiment with. I quickly learned I was out of my element, unable to make the map do everything I wanted it to do.
I’m not going to update it any longer, and I’ve thought about taking it down. But it looks like folks still use it.
Others in Durham have developed what I think are better maps and better collections of other maps.
Romney Biddulph, using Wayfaring, was able to do what I wasn’t, namely to show on the map all of the intersecting routes. Here’s his version of a Durham cycling map.
Jim Reingruber started a map that shows bike parking throughout Durham.
This morning, Daniel S. Schudel emailed me with his collection of Google Earth files and links to other cycling maps.
And the City recently developed these Google Earth files based on GIS data collected during the Bike Plan. You have to be a member of the Yahoo group durhambikeandped to get access to the files. If you don’t want to join, email me or post a comment below, and I’ll get them to you.
There are also some well-done interactive websites collecting bike routes. They’re developed by folks who make it easy for the average web-surfer to log in and input their own routes. My favorite is Bikely. For example, it looks like Adrian Hands recently added the route for this year’s Halloween Hundred.
Y’all have a good weekend, and ride safe.
