cccorlew

I'm going to try riding every road in my town. Because riding bikes is fun. Because doing geeky things is fun. Because doing bike things with geeky things is four times the fun. Because I don't wanta grow up. And because I'm too slow to race.

In the last year I did a time trial up Mt. Diablo, a double century, and bike commuted every day. I have a two week tour coming up. This is just one more bikish thing to do.

But I have a problem with the GPS / mapping end. Please read my blog, laugh at me, and see if you have a solution for my issue.

Curtis Corlew in Bicycle Land: Ride Every Road: It's now a "thing" #RER

Northwestrider

Nothing weird at all, more like ambitious, and a good idea. Where are you going on your tour?

cccorlew

I'm doing an organized ride from Portland to just shy of Canada.

After we're done we'll visit in Port Orchard, and I'm sure we'll end up at the used book store in Gig Harbor at some point.

David Bierbaum

I'm a big fan of lawnscape tours around the neighborhoods in the area, especially around Spring and Fall. Some people just put WAY too much work on their lawns, and I owe it to them to ride by and gawk appreciatively!

bruce19

Sounds like a fun "project" to me.

Northwestrider

We'll be almost like a tag team then, I'll be leaving from the border in a couple of weeks ( my wife will drop me off at the Sumas crossing ) then heading north. If you've never been to Victoria, you should consider tossing your bikes on the ferry for the trip there, its a nice destination.

Northwestrider

Nice

dalameda

There a few methodologies of combining strava rides here:

https://strava.zendesk.com/entries/2...Combine-Rides-

Basically they involve cutting and pasting the exported gpx files to create one file, then uploading that. It also looks like edmondo might be able to combine filess.

Sounds like a fund project, as long as you are in a relatively small city. Also as you probably know, there are a few neighborhoods in Antioch you will want to be a bit careful riding through.

DiabloScott

I used to have to do that when I got my GPS data from my camera... the filesize was limited and the data was embedded in video so a single file would only be about 30 minutes. It's not really hard, but it's clumsy. If I wanted to, I could paste together a ride of 10 times up Diablo to take over the most climbing trophy for a week.

I used to live in Port Orchard - next to the auction place south of town.

Edit - proof of concept - I copied the same ride four times and just changed the date with the replace function... I'm not even sure that was necessary. I also changed the date to year 2010 so it wouldn't look like I was trying to do any funny stuff... I'll delete this when I'm sure I'm done with it.


It'd be really easy to get a virtual digital KOM on any climb I wanted to - although it'd be tedious changing all the data points in the file.

B. Carfree

From an article on the Million Mile Man, Danny Chew The Million Mile Man - Danny Chew

I guess there's going to be a few calls of, "New Road" around Antioch this year. Have fun.

groth

Two things:

There's something called New Jersey Bike Map (or something like that) in which a person has kept track of every road he's ridden and put them on a map with comments about the road. He started long before GPS, Strava, etc.

I'm not a Strava user, but I've seen the global heat map, very cool. So how do they make that? My guess: Produce a map overlay image containing only GPS track data. Start with an image of all zeros. For each GPS segment, add 1 to the image for all the pixels along that segment. Continue until you've done all the GPS segments you want to include in the overlay. (There are undoubtably tweaks to be sure that the overlay segments line up with roads, that pixels have to have a sufficient overlap with the segment, etc., but these are details and we probably don't need to worry about them.)

When you're done, you have an overlay which is 0 where the GPS has never been and otherwise has a number which is the count of how many tracks went through that point. Then you have to decide how to map the count to color and put it on the background map.

Apparently, Strava has the ability to change the mapping of count to color. What you want is transparency when the count is 0 and a single bright obvious color when the count is 1 or greater. My guess is that if you explain your project to the Strava folks, they may decide that others are interested in doing a similar thing. (In fact they could hold a contest - be the first to ride all streets in your town!) So they might be agreeable to implementing such a mapping from count to color!

Good luck,
Ed

Biker395 

I was chatting with a friend who was going to do the same in our neighborhood ... sounds like a great project!

reverborama

I think it is a great idea. A woman out here in Minneapolis managed to walk every street in town. It took a while and she was smart about it IIRC, tackling the streets in the bad areas by heading there early on Sunday mornings. If I was going to do Minneapolis by bike, I'd do the same thing with busy streets as well. I have been thinking about trying to ride every metro area bike trail end-to-end over the course of the summer but haven't gotten around to looking at a map to see what kind of commitment that would be. ;-) Heck, some of them are closed now due to all the rain we've been getting.

Wildwood 

I did that back in the 80's - ride every street, paved and unpaved, in the city. We had many mountainous streets and tiny neighborhoods. But it was only Scotts Valley, CA; population then was maybe 6,000. It was very much fun and educational in some ways. I found a few big dogs, too.

Garfield Cat

Try riding in all 58 counties of California. Doesn't have to be big rides, but just ride at least somewhere in each of the 58 counties before California develops into new States.