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My buddy Erin Nicole started a petition to ask the good folks at Google to add a “Bike there” feature to their mapping program. The feature would help bikers navigate certified bicycle lanes and automatically plan a route, possibly providing the cyclist options for either the most direct route, or the most bicycle-friendly (safest) route.
According to the petition, there are many reasons why this feature would be a wonderful edition to Google Maps. Among them, some of the most influential would be to:
* Make bicycling safer for millions of bicyclists around the world.
* Empower world citizens to better adapt their lifestyles to face the challenges of global climate change.
* Help Google realize its core mission of ‘organizing the world’s information and making it universally accessible and useful.’This is a great idea! Please sign it!
I like: pit bulls and bikes, in that order. I’ve often wanted this kind of thing on Google Maps—if you want to know how to, say, bike to City Island (which is a bike ride I’ve been wanting to do forever), you have to follow some convoluted directions that you find on some random website from like 10 years ago.
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Why not just have a Google Maps page where people can create and add whatever “Map Plug-Ins” they want?This seems very...
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I like: pit bulls and bikes, in that order. I’ve often wanted this kind of thing on Google Maps—if you want to know how...
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