NYC Bike Maps

[nycbikemaps]

http://nycbikemaps.com is a new google maps mashup of all of New York City's bike lanes, bike paths, & greenways. It is presently a work in progress, but already has almost every bike lane, bike path, & greenway plotted.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions on ways to improve it. thanks

http://www.nycbikemaps.com

[oboeguy]

Nice touch adding the "Seven Sisters" a.k.a. "River Road" route in NJ.

[AndrewP]

I think a map that showed the street condition (smooth, cracked, potholed, Kinshasa) by colour code would be more useful for planning city routes

[oboeguy]

Neat idea, but that would also be virtually impossible for "one guy coding" to maintain.

Edit: Some sort of Wiki-style editing by users WOULD work, IMO. bikemap guy, what do you think? Can it be done?

[bennyk]

This is cool. I wish it showed the greenroute entrances and exits in more detail.

[Jerseysbest]

Nice, where'd you get all the data from?

I didn't know about GPS Visualizer, I thought you needed to really know Java to get a Google API to work

[nycbikemaps]

obeguy- excluding River Road would just have been wrong . more routes & rides outside of the city will be added later.

andrewP- that certainly would be great for planning routes, but would only be possible through a wiki or something with the D.O.T.'s data.

bennyk- adding greenway access points is at the top of list & will be added soon.

jerseysbest-
Routes were plotted using one or more of the methods by
-Riding the route with a GPS device recording the route.
-Viewing & tracing the routes via satellite imagery in google earth & converting to for use on the web
-data for routes i am not personally familiar with came from the NYC.gov - Bike Maps

some very basic java script & html is needed, but sites like gpsvisualizer.com make it much simpler.

[nycbikemaps]

NYCBikeMaps.com To Do List:
* directional indication for one-way bike lanes
* add locations of greenway access points
* add search function to recenter the map user supplied address
* separate map of geotagged images of bike lanes & bike paths. working on it: http://www.nycbikemaps.com/pictures_nycbikemaps/map.htm
* add notes for special circumstances (stairs, detours, & construction)
* location of bike shops
* public restrooms near bike routes
* subway & train stations near bike routes (this could be difficult)
* adding elevation data
* Printer friendly version ( routes do not print presently & I don't know why not)

[oboeguy]

NYCBikeMaps.com To Do List:
* separate map of geotagged images of bike lanes & bike paths. working on it: http://www.nycbikemaps.com/pictures_nycbikemaps/map.htm


What's your source for pictures? (you?)

[bennyk]

What's your source for pictures? (you?)

this is something we could all help with

[nycbikemaps]

presently i am the only source for pictures, but am exploring using flickr for the picture map.

[Jerseysbest]

excellent work man

[nycbikemaps]

Thanks again for all the comments.

Much like New York City's bike infrastructure, this site needs improvement. There are issues to fix, features to add, & a whole lot of QA before this site is complete. I will turn to you all often for feedback, so thank you in advance.

If anyone would like to contribute pictures, particulary geotagged pics of bike lanes & bike paths,you can do so on flicker by adding them to this group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/nycbikemaps/

In other news, a map of the 5 Boro Bike Tour has been added, but is obviously not for use navigating the city since it is a closed road that goes on several highways.
http://www.nycbikemaps.com/5_Boro_Bike_Tour_2006.html

[bennyk]

This seems to really bog down my browser- Firefox 1.5.0.3 anyone else experiencing this?

[nycbikemaps]

This seems to really bog down my browser- Firefox 1.5.0.3 anyone else experiencing this?

there have been a number of people who have pointed out that the website is a bit of a memory hog. Google maps had a rather substaintial memory leak issue with IE & to a lesser extent firefox, which they recently released documentation on how to fix. I have taken there suggestions, but still find that it can hog computer resources. There are more than 5,000 geographic points used to make the map and serving them to a web browser seems to be the biggest cause of performance issues. I am exploring new ways to serve them, but would gladly take any suggestion from those with some knowledge of the google mapd api.

http://www.nycbikemaps.com still needs a lot of work & unfortunately my day job is hogging most of my time (not to mention my desire to getout & ride), but I appreciate all the comments & suggestions.

thanks again,
Seth @ http://www.nycbikemaps.com

[nycbikemaps]

current projects & futre plans are outlines on this page:

http://www.nycbikemaps.com/spokes/

http://www.nycbikemaps.com

[nycbikemaps]

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