bike map

Ride The City is simplifying the way their cycling maps are updated by moving all the cycling route information to the Open Street Map (OSM) site, a world-wide crowd-sourced map that is edited by tens of thousands. Ride the City is already using OSM for the basic map (and for mapping the cycling routes in some cities) and now would like to move cities like Toronto to OSM to provide more flexibility to people to edit the routing themselves.

Toronto transportation staff are conducting a survey on the bike map they produce yearly to find out what people use, what worked, what needs to be improved.

They are certainly aware that improvements are happening quickly elsewhere as Ride the City and Google Maps includes bike directions.

Google Maps has expanded their bike directions to Canadian cities, following on the heels of Ride the City, which launched their bike directions for Toronto earlier this year.

Ride the City, a free website that this spring had expanded to show safer bike routes to Toronto cyclists, has launched a new version of its iPhone app that will work in Toronto and a bunch of American cities. Torontonians now have the chance to either use the website or the app to map out their routes.

Key features of the iPhone app:

Youtube user JHGRedekop has posted videos of their GPS tracings from 2004 to 2009, covering a large part of the city.

A time-lapse animation of my recumbent cycling in Toronto, spanning 2004 to 2009. In all, about 650 hours of cycling totalling almost 8100km.

This is the total record of all my recumbent riding. Individual years are also available as separate videos, and there are more details in the comments on those.

I happen to like maps. If you don't share this trait, then I suggest you move on. You could watch the MC SpandX video "Performance" instead (thanks to BikeSnobNYC).

I Bike T.O. now has a bike map you can use along side your handy City map (both in paper and in a friggin' large pdf file.) It's a bit more useful because you can save it to your own maps, zoom in and add your own routes that follow the various bike routes.