Comments on: Ride the City http://googlemapsbikethere.org/2008/06/16/ride-the-city/ ...for a safer, healthier, happier world. :-) Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:19:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Google Maps ‘Bike There’ | RideTheCity.com Profiled on Major Tech Blog, TechCrunch http://googlemapsbikethere.org/2008/06/16/ride-the-city/#comment-1727 Google Maps ‘Bike There’ | RideTheCity.com Profiled on Major Tech Blog, TechCrunch Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:12:22 +0000 http://googlemapsbikethere.org/?p=276#comment-1727 [...] few days ago they profiled RideTheCity.com, who we profiled a couple of months ago. Here’s what TechCrunch had to say: RideTheCity is a cool mash-up application that allows you [...] [...] few days ago they profiled RideTheCity.com, who we profiled a couple of months ago. Here’s what TechCrunch had to say: RideTheCity is a cool mash-up application that allows you [...]

]]> By: Peter Smith http://googlemapsbikethere.org/2008/06/16/ride-the-city/#comment-1600 Peter Smith Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:10:28 +0000 http://googlemapsbikethere.org/?p=276#comment-1600 Thanks for the feedback, Mike. Glad to hear it's producing decent directions. We're right with ya on the national bike directions thing. I think Ride the City definitely just helped us raise the bar in a very real way, so I figure if we keep agitating for it, we'll eventually get it. Thanks for the feedback, Mike. Glad to hear it’s producing decent directions.

We’re right with ya on the national bike directions thing. I think Ride the City definitely just helped us raise the bar in a very real way, so I figure if we keep agitating for it, we’ll eventually get it.

]]> By: Mike http://googlemapsbikethere.org/2008/06/16/ride-the-city/#comment-1597 Mike Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:14:34 +0000 http://googlemapsbikethere.org/?p=276#comment-1597 It's pretty good. It gave me the long route to get from where I live in Staten Island NY to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal (lucky I know better) but seemed to give very accurate directions for the Manhattan leg of my morning commute to the office building where I work. It would be cool if it expanded past the 5 Boros to include routes from NYC into the surrounding area (i.e., NJ once you cross the Bayonne Bridge or the GW Bridge, Westchester and Nassau and Suffolk Counties). Not that I have any plans for any epic intercity biking tours anytime in the near future, but what I'd really like to see is google maps or some similar site give nationwide cycling directions/instructions in case I ever want to bike on over from NYC to Boston or DC--(that actually does seem like a *remote* possibility although I won't be biking coast-to coast anytime soon). Whether I ever attempt something insane like that or not, why the hell can't "they" set up a system giving nationwide cycling directions just like mapquest, google maps, etc. do for driving directions??? It’s pretty good. It gave me the long route to get from where I live in Staten Island NY to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal (lucky I know better) but seemed to give very accurate directions for the Manhattan leg of my morning commute to the office building where I work. It would be cool if it expanded past the 5 Boros to include routes from NYC into the surrounding area (i.e., NJ once you cross the Bayonne Bridge or the GW Bridge, Westchester and Nassau and Suffolk Counties). Not that I have any plans for any epic intercity biking tours anytime in the near future, but what I’d really like to see is google maps or some similar site give nationwide cycling directions/instructions in case I ever want to bike on over from NYC to Boston or DC–(that actually does seem like a *remote* possibility although I won’t be biking coast-to coast anytime soon). Whether I ever attempt something insane like that or not, why the hell can’t “they” set up a system giving nationwide cycling directions just like mapquest, google maps, etc. do for driving directions???

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