This Just In: googlemaps for bikes!

[Sylvia]

I hope that Google eventually includes their Trike view with this.
It's like Street View but can show places not accessible by car, like bike paths.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/...iew_trike.html

[WindingRoad]

OK some of you girls from the Philly area let me know if I can trust Google on atleast some of their routes. As you know I will be moving there soon and I'm already planning my routes.... I'm mapping routes from Mt. Airy to Elkins Park. I always drive a route before I ride it for the first time but that's a bit of a commute right now

[OakLeaf]

Actually, a lot of the imagery nowadays is aerial, even though they still call it "satellite." Much less expensive at the resolutions they have. (You can see the horses in my neighbor's pasture, 30 miles from nowhere.)

And as I said, they all update on different schedules, so I always use Bing and Yahoo as well as Google when it's important to get it right.

I forgot to mention them in my earlier post, but the gazetteers are also inaccurate as to which roads are paved.

No, you can't always tell from the imagery. But often enough to make it worthwhile to zoom in and compare the color of the road surface with the color of people's driveways and intersecting roads, etc.

[jobob]

I hope that Google eventually includes their Trike view with this.
It's like Street View but can show places not accessible by car, like bike paths.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/...iew_trike.html

LeeBob, my DH, rode by the Google Trike one day a few months ago out on the Alameda Creek Trail. So maybe he'll be immortalized on Google Street (Path?) View someday.

[Tuckervill]

You can see my son on the trampoline in our back yard in our street view. He's a blur, because I'm sure he was jumping.

I recently spent 6 days in Boulder, using only my Google-based Droid phone for directions. The only hiccup was when it led me to the BACK of my hotel which was in a neighborhood, and there were houses between me and the hotel. In G-maps defense, Boulder had some one-ways and frontage roads and no-u-turns that they couldn't have anticipated. But I had my eyes for that!

Karen