New Google Maps Mashup for Cyclists!
Jun 11th, 2008 by Jervey
We haven’t been this excited for a website since, well, this one.
Behold Ride the City, a way to find bicycle-friendly directions all around the city. In their words:
About Ride the City
Welcome to Ride the City, a website that helps you find the safest bike route between any two points in New York City.
The concept is pretty simple. Just like MapQuest, Google, Microsoft, and other mapping programs, Ride the City finds the shortest distance between two points. But there are two major differences. First, RTC excludes roads that aren’t meant for biking, like the BQE and the Queens Midtown tunnel. Second, RTC tries to locate routes that maximize the use of bike lanes and greenways.
Streetsblog has an early review too.