Sunday, May 31, 2009

Bicycle Route Mapping

My friend Tom is an avid cyclist. When I came back from Florida I mentioned several websites that I have been using to map various routes, as well as tracks from my various GPS tracking devices. He send me his findings as well as this update:
    Here's an update: http://www.bikemap.net is still the best I've found, although all of them have warts. My maps are at http://www.bikemap.net/user/tomfortmann/routes. Don't forget to hover your cursor over the elevation plot, and note the full-screen mode. Those two features put it ahead of the others.

    Two others I found recently are

    http://www.bikely.com Similar to bikemap.net but no dynamic elevation or full-screen mode

    http://www.trimbleoutdoors.com Pretty good; multiple tracks; tiny editing and display windows are a big drawback

    And as I told you before, mapmyride.com is a nonstarter for various reasons.