Commutes: post your google earth commute trail
05-26-06, 11:16 PM
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Commutes: post your google earth commute trail
Google Earth
https://earth.google.com/
Tools - Measure [PATH] Length kilometres or miles.
F11 - gives fullscreen, you can then go to tools and bring up the measure tool to see the distance of the trail.
printscreen key
paste in a paint program
save as jpg
upload to a free image host eg; https://www.imageshack.us
My commute this morning just after 6am, took the bay for additional kilometres to the city CBD. It was 8degC in the morning, freezing, considering high humidity finger cut gloves and no leg warmers before dawn. Hardly any cars along the way until I got to the last bridge, a couple of cagers came by and one guy beeped me, probably just for fun as there was no reason for it, he could have just changed lanes since the road was empty. Will be riding back a similair way, just not along the main roads as the traffic is much heavier now.
I like riding to the city this early when the traffic is minimal, you can enjoy some of the smooth highway lanes that would otherwise be difficult to enjoy with the continual stopping, trucks and their diesel power smog.
post your commutes!
https://earth.google.com/
Tools - Measure [PATH] Length kilometres or miles.
F11 - gives fullscreen, you can then go to tools and bring up the measure tool to see the distance of the trail.
printscreen key
paste in a paint program
save as jpg
upload to a free image host eg; https://www.imageshack.us
My commute this morning just after 6am, took the bay for additional kilometres to the city CBD. It was 8degC in the morning, freezing, considering high humidity finger cut gloves and no leg warmers before dawn. Hardly any cars along the way until I got to the last bridge, a couple of cagers came by and one guy beeped me, probably just for fun as there was no reason for it, he could have just changed lanes since the road was empty. Will be riding back a similair way, just not along the main roads as the traffic is much heavier now.
I like riding to the city this early when the traffic is minimal, you can enjoy some of the smooth highway lanes that would otherwise be difficult to enjoy with the continual stopping, trucks and their diesel power smog.
post your commutes!
05-27-06, 09:50 AM
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Cool! Mine isn't anywhere near as cool-looking as yours, but I'll try to post it later. I'm off for a ride!
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05-27-06, 01:48 PM
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I don't commute, wouldn't this be better in the commute forum?
Neat route though.
Neat route though.
05-27-06, 08:54 PM
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Kind of interesting excercise, I think I may have found a few shortcut roads in the process.
05-28-06, 02:58 AM
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I've got 3 major commuting routes. I paste only one, it is 6.8 km long. To my work its a bit shorter but on the same route just closer to home (4.4), and to the uni its along the riverbank riding southwards and it is about 8.4km. From the bridge to home the elevation is 400 feet and its 1.5 miles (takes about ten min to climb home from the bottom of the hill). Downtown is flat.
05-28-06, 12:13 PM
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Hope this works. My ride to work from Woodland Hills to UCLA. This is the easiest route. Usually leave at 0430 to 0515 depending on planned short run/treadmill when I arrive. Traffic is very light at this hour. Best avg speed for this commute was 19.7 mph, lucked out on green lights that day. Just under 700 ft. of climbing mostly on Sepulveda blvd.
I have several routes for the ride home all with mu[IMG][/IMG]ch more climbing. I'll post one of those later.
I have several routes for the ride home all with mu[IMG][/IMG]ch more climbing. I'll post one of those later.
05-28-06, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by operator
That wouldn't happen to give you an elevation profile would it?
06-01-06, 10:33 AM
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Here is my quick route to work:
And this is my normal route home:
I take longer going home and I have to stop by the Post Office Box.
Sometimes I take a longer route home along the strand on the beach. The views are great there.
And this is my normal route home:
I take longer going home and I have to stop by the Post Office Box.
Sometimes I take a longer route home along the strand on the beach. The views are great there.
06-01-06, 10:39 AM
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My commute is only about 12 paces from the bedroom to the office. There was no map on Google.
