Map Your Commute using Gmaps Pedometer
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Map Your Commute using Gmaps Pedometer
Head over to Gmaps Pedometer and map your commute.
This is my current commute.
In the future I may be moving locations, in which case I will have to consider this (significantly longer) commute.
What does your commute look like?
This is my current commute.
In the future I may be moving locations, in which case I will have to consider this (significantly longer) commute.
What does your commute look like?
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This is pretty neat! Mileage is a little off, I cut some corners kinda bad.
https://sueandpaul.com/gmapPedometer/...xC%7C@%60An@v@
https://sueandpaul.com/gmapPedometer/...xC%7C@%60An@v@
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That was fun until I realized it doesn't go around round sections of road. It's "as the crow flies".
So anyone who posted, we now know exactly where you all live and work. <mrburns>Excellent, most excellent!</mrburns>
Edit: forgot to mention that I think this is an awesome tool for planning routes or even adding some juice to a good turn sheet for a ride (by adding mileage, I guess).
So anyone who posted, we now know exactly where you all live and work. <mrburns>Excellent, most excellent!</mrburns>
Edit: forgot to mention that I think this is an awesome tool for planning routes or even adding some juice to a good turn sheet for a ride (by adding mileage, I guess).
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So far, I think I'll take dwightonabike's commute. 2.5 miles over the ocean seems like a pretty sweet deal. I'm sure there are disadvantages though.
You're right, ridealot, it does seem like the mileage is a little off, but it gives a good ballpark for when I want to plan a route somewhere.
You're right, ridealot, it does seem like the mileage is a little off, but it gives a good ballpark for when I want to plan a route somewhere.
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OK I'll join in the fun. Here's mine.
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Wow! This is so cool. Now one can estimate the distance of a touring trip.
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My mileage is about 1 mile to little, but it was tough to get my commute! I ride on a rail trail for the vast majority of my ride and that's not on the map -- which is why my lines seem to go in the middle of nowhere!
https://tinyurl.com/8xllq
https://tinyurl.com/8xllq
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Originally Posted by DerekU2
My mileage is about 1 mile to little, but it was tough to get my commute! I ride on a rail trail for the vast majority of my ride and that's not on the map -- which is why my lines seem to go in the middle of nowhere!
https://tinyurl.com/8xllq
https://tinyurl.com/8xllq
I'm not sure if you saw this, in but in the top right corner of the map you can switch to "Satellite" mode, in which case I think you can see the rail. You did a pretty good job if you mapped it blind
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A nice hack, but I prefer www.map24.com. Bonus for the fact that it has a much bigger viewing area.
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hey this is awesome - here's mine in denver - from downtown, to the southeast area
https://tinyurl.com/aeehl
but now i'm dissappointed. i thought it was 10 or 9.5, and it's telling me it's
now i can't say i do a century each week 10 miles @ 2 per day x 5 per week
https://tinyurl.com/aeehl
but now i'm dissappointed. i thought it was 10 or 9.5, and it's telling me it's
now i can't say i do a century each week 10 miles @ 2 per day x 5 per week
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Originally Posted by DerekU2
My mileage is about 1 mile to little, but it was tough to get my commute! I ride on a rail trail for the vast majority of my ride and that's not on the map -- which is why my lines seem to go in the middle of nowhere!
https://tinyurl.com/8xllq
https://tinyurl.com/8xllq
Hmmm, I'm trying using the sattelite images instead (DUH!) and having a bit more success. Still, uit's a bit hard ti find the trail in some of these images - I'll post an update if I find it more accurate...
What a great way to kill the afternoon!
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Okay, it was a bit harder to find the trail than I expected, but here's an improved version of my map that I used the sattelite images to draw. GMaps states 11.4 miles, but it is, in fact, 11.7 (based on both my computer and mile markers along the trail).
https://tinyurl.com/du73n
Really, when compared to my original I didn't do too bad drawing the map blind!
https://tinyurl.com/du73n
Really, when compared to my original I didn't do too bad drawing the map blind!
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Here's mine in Auckland, NZ. Note: the maps aren't completed yet for down here, but I managed to get a reasonably accurate course. Most of my ride is by the pacific ocean
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Well, this is as close as I can get it. Not sure what the commute is really in Miles, but it's 21km each way, so 42km/day.
https://sueandpaul.com/gmapPedometer/...aQpNzChKql@fg@
https://sueandpaul.com/gmapPedometer/...aQpNzChKql@fg@
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Here is my commute here in St. Paul and that other city to the east which starts with "M". Very cool thing.
https://tinyurl.com/bnxes
https://tinyurl.com/bnxes
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Too bad it doesnt do elevation. My commute to class is 3.5 miles but on the way home, I have a 350ft climb in about a mile. Its fun to go to class though. Its that climb that requires 50 gear inches that prevents me from going fixed or have a higher gear than 32x18.
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I couldn't figure out how to pick anopther area, but someone else did. I hope this is accurate.
https://sueandpaul.com/gmapPedometer/...@ro@a@xEdByEzZ
https://sueandpaul.com/gmapPedometer/...@ro@a@xEdByEzZ
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Very, very cool. Here's my commute. Mine was easy to map because the bikepath I use is by the river along one of our major streets here in Montreal.
My Commute
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Holy commute Dchiefransom!! How long does that take you?
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This is pretty cool, here's mine
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