March 10, 2010, 3:58 p.m.
Big day for bike maps!
Today Google officially announced the addition of a 'bike there' option for getting directions in Google Maps. This story has been covered by a few other blogs:
Today Google officially announced the addition of a 'bike there' option for getting directions in Google Maps. This story has been covered by a few other blogs:
For at least the past week I've been compulsively working on upgrading my map creator at Ride Free Bike Maps. The upgrade that I published isn't an upgrade to the main app, per se. It's a demonstration of where the app is headed beautifully displayed in a parallel instance of the software. Essentially I created a new instance of the app and gave it special powers to load a single, hard coded route, from a database. A database which includes a grand total of ...
For at least the past week I've been compulsively working on upgrading my map creator at Ride Free Bike Maps. The upgrade that I published isn't an upgrade to the main app, per se. It's a demonstration of where the app is headed beautifully displayed in a parallel instance of the software. Essentially I created a new instance of the app and gave it special powers to load a single, hard coded route, from a database. A database which includes a grand total of ...
So for the past three days I've been working on upgrading the UI of the map Creator app. The goal is to make it more intuitive and streamlined. I've got the bulk of the app done, all that is left is some fiddly CSS changes. Hopefully I'll get those taken care of tomorrow. If I don't the update will go live regardless because I'm going south for the weekend.
So for the past three days I've been working on upgrading the UI of the map Creator app. The goal is to make it more intuitive and streamlined. I've got the bulk of the app done, all that is left is some fiddly CSS changes. Hopefully I'll get those taken care of tomorrow. If I don't the update will go live regardless because I'm going south for the weekend.