March 5, 2010, 3:56 p.m.

Finally another update to my map creator!

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 TWO ROUTES! You can check out the upgrade to the bike map creator here and the post that announced it here.

All kidding aside, I did spend a lot of time on this. Mostly because this is beyond anything I've ever done before. Databases, CGI, and AJAX are things I had to learn to get this working. hopefully I'll be able to easily expand this further by creating some kind of public access to the route creation process.

I'm super proud of myself for getting this working. Go me!

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