Ride The City.com Launches Google Map App for Bikers!:
Ride the City.com has a launched a nifty application, that enables users to plot a course for their biking routes, that can be calculated on the factors of speed and safety. Users can select a start and stop point in New York City and the application will automatically create the safest route along with the quickest ones, without compromising the safety of the bikers.
According to Tech Crunch, “The project is run by three bikers, Jordan Anderson, Vaidila Kungys, and Josh Steinbauer (Full disclosure: I went to college with Jordan but found out about this via NPR.) who connected Google maps to a few basic heuristic rules and added a cool logo. The GIS data comes from the city itself and is merged with Google Maps for display.”
Founder of of the app, Jordan Anderson says, “Sometimes the most daunting thing about riding a bike in New York is figuring out the best route to take. How do you get to the bridge entrances? What’s the best way to Central Park from the Hudson River greenway? We created this website to help beginning bicyclists answer those questions.”
Every time you search Ride the City, we look through more than 125,000 records in a database. Most of that data comes from the City’s LION GIS data. The City’s LION file does not contain bicycle facility data, so we made a Freedom of Information Act request to the NYC Department of Transportation and NYC Department of City Planning. That got us a little closer, but we still had to put in dozens of hours of data cleanup to get everything working more-or-less correctly.
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