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Permalink Reply by Andrew Bedno on March 11, 2010 at 4:25am

http://maps.google.com/biking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN5_NBSu7Lw

Permalink Reply by Spencer "Thunderball" Thayer! on March 11, 2010 at 6:00am

I am thinking about making this a April 1st thing. What do you think?

Permalink Reply by Andrew Bedno on March 11, 2010 at 6:23am

I saw that mentioned, but April 1st has something forming already.

I could see fully automating this in under a few dozen lines of PHP. Make a random CCM route generator web page. I'm not gonna do it, but funny idea: Pick n items from preferred points of interest list, start with Daley plaza, sequence items by consecutive proximity (sqrt(deltaLong^2*deltaLat^2) right?), pass to Google for point to point bike route output (xml/api complexities may ensue). Alternately substitute human feed at any point.

Permalink Reply by Spencer "Thunderball" Thayer! on March 11, 2010 at 6:34am

Oh man a ride entirely built without the aid of a human. BRILLIANT! It wouldn't be very hard...

Get a list of every Chicago landmark...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chicago_Landmarks

Put that list in a randomizer...
http://www.random.org/lists/

Pick the top ten and put them in order in Google Bikes!

Permalink Reply by Spencer "Thunderball" Thayer! on March 11, 2010 at 6:41am

There were 320 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Field Building[129]
Dr. Wallace C. Abbott House[19]
Carl Sandburg House[314]
Leiter II Building[209]
St. Charles Air Line Bridge[332]
Swedish American State Bank Building[340]
Schurz High School[318]
Old Chicago Water Tower District[375]
American School of Correspondence[25]
First Baptist Congregational Church[131]
Armitage-Halsted District[29]
Uptown Theatre[358]
Northwestern University Settlement House[261]
Lathrop House[208]
Bachman House[35]
Motor Row District[249]
Dearborn Street Station[96]
Chicago & Illinois Western Railway Bridge[66]
Main Building and Machinery Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology[222]
Brewster Apartments[43]
Wood-Maxey-Boyd House[385]
Biograph Theater[39]
Oliver Building[271]
Mather Tower[230]
Hyde Park-Kenwood National Bank Building[178]
Site of the Origin of the Chicago Fire of 1871[76]
Unity Hall[357]
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Bridge No. Z-2[80]
Cable House[50]
Illinois-Indiana State Line Boundary Marker[184]
Griffiths-Burroughs House[155]
Kimbell Trust and Savings Bank Building[202]
Chapin and Gore Building[61]
Florsheim Shoe Company Building[136]
R.R. Donnelly and Sons Co. Calumet Plant[101]
New York Life Insurance Building[255]
(Former) Engine Company 86[124]
Washington Square Historic District (Chicago)[372]
Overton Hygienic Building[274]
Fisher Building[133]
Fullerton State Bank Building[142]
Chatham-Greater Grand Crossing Commercial District[79]
Supreme Life Building[338]
James Ward Public School[368]
Wigwam (Site of the Sauganash Hotel)[315]
Gwendolyn Brooks House[45]
Arlington and Roslyn Place District[27]
Hazelton-Mikota House[164]
Ukrainian Village District[353]
Illinois Central Railroad Swing Bridge[182]
Museum of Science and Industry[251]
Vassar Swiss Underwear Company Building[359]
Terra Cotta Row District[343]
London Guarantee Building[216]
East Lake Shore Drive District[106]
Charles N. Loucks House[218]
Garfield Park Fieldhouse[145]
Sears, Roebuck and Company Administration Building[319]
Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad Bridge[69]
Iglehart House[181]
Delaware Building[97]
Chicago Board of Trade Building[71]
Beverly/Morgan Railroad District[38]
Lorraine Hansberry House[159]
Dover Street District[103]
Chess Records [64]
Stephen A. Douglas Tomb[102]
K.A.M. Isaiah Israel Temple[195]
North Kenwood District[260]
Immaculata High School and Convent Buildings[185]
6901 Oglesby Cooperative Apartment Building[17]
Miller House[243]
Mid-North District Extension[242]
Metropolitan Apostolic Community Church Building[237]
McGraw-Hill Building[234]
One North LaSalle Building[272]
Arlington-Deming District[28]
City Hall-County Building[83]
Cermak Road Bridge District [60]
Navy Pier Headhouse and Auditorium[252]
Hotel St. Benedict Flats[172]
South Side Community Art Center[328]
Wabash Avenue YMCA[365]
Lion House[213]
Hawthorne Place District[162]
Old Dearborn Bank Building[268]
Sexton School[323]
Turzak House[352]
Charnley House[62]
F. R. Schock House[127]
Waller Apartments[366]
Woman's Athletic Club[384]
Historic Michigan Boulevard District[240]
East Village District[107]
Ludington Building[219]
Washington Square District Extension[373]
Chicago Public Library/Cultural Center[78]
Site of Fort Dearborn[138]
Chicago Bee Building[70]
Foster House and Stable[139]
Dexter Building[100]
Theurer-Wrigley House[346]
Old Town Triangle District[270]
(Former) Engine Company 104, Truck 31[125]
Ida B. Wells-Barnett House[376]
Henry Gerber House[147]
Elam House[110]
Engine Company 65, Truck 52[117]
Engine Company 45, Truck 15[114]
Manhattan Building[224]
Crown Hall[93]
Groesbeck House[156]
Jewelers' Building[191]
Krause Music Store[203]
Hutchinson Street District[177]
Wheeler-Kohn House[380]
Wicker Park District[382]
Eighth Regiment Armory[109]
Medinah Temple[235]
Washington Park Court District[370]
Vesemen Building[360]
Assumption School Building[30]
Schoenhofen Brewery[317]
Alta Vista Terrace District[23]
Statue of the Republic[331]
Chicago & Alton Railway Bridge[65]
Jackson Park Highlands District[189]
Walter Burley Griffin Place District[154]
Elks National Memorial Headquarters Building[112]
Old Edgebrook District[269]
Lincoln Avenue Row House District[211]
Farwell Building[128]
Harris and Selwyn Theaters[160]
Tree Studios, Annexes, and Courtyard[348]
Canaan Baptist Church of Christ Building[56]
Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain and Garden[47]
Eliel House[111]
Surf-Pine Grove District[339]
Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church[238]
Civic Opera Building[84]
Calumet-Giles-Prairie District[53]
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool[51]
Marie Schock House[225]
Lindeman & Hoverson Co. Showroom & Warehouse[214]
Milwaukee Avenue District[244]
Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building[58]
(Former) Engine Company 42 Firehouse[123]
Lorado Taft's Midway Studios[341]
Heller House[166]
Yondorf Block and Hall[389]
Sunset Cafe[337]
Lake-Franklin Group[204]
Clarke House[86]
Trustees System Service Building[351]
300 West Adams Building[13]
Bach House[34]
South Pond Refectory
Site of the Haymarket Tragedy[163]
Old Colony Building[267]
Allerton Hotel[21]
Fine Arts Building[130]
Hitchcock House[169]
Newport Avenue District[254]
Greenwood Row House District[153]
First Church of Deliverance[132]
Chicago Varnish Company Building[82]
Madlener House[221]
George Cleveland Hall Branch, Chicago Public Library[158]
Soldiers' Home[326]
Washington Square District Extension, Isaac Maynard Row Houses[374]
Mundelein College Skyscraper Building[250]
Gage Group[143]
63rd Street Bathing Pavilion[16]
Wrigley Field[387]
South Side Trust & Savings Bank Building[329]
Richard Wright House[386]
Jackson-Thomas House[190]
North Chicago Hospital Building[259]
Jewish People's Institute[193]
West Town State Bank Building[379]
Site of the Origins of the I&M Canal[179]
Calumet National Bank Building[54]
Old Chicago Coast Guard Station (now Chicago Marine Safety Station)[266]
Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral and Rectory[170]
IBM Building (330 North Wabash)[180]
Heyworth Building[168]
Bryn Mawr Apartment Hotel
Michigan Avenue Bridge and Esplanade[239]
King-Nash House[201]
American System-Built Houses[26]
Engine Company 84, Truck 51[119]
Continental and Commercial Bank Building[89]
Washington Block[369]
Beeson House and Coach House[36]
Third Unitarian Church[345]
Former Chicago Historical Society Building[137]
McCormick Double House[231]
(Former) Engine Company 35, Truck 28[122]
Cortland Street Drawbridge[90]
Jackson Boulevard District and Extension[188]
Majestic Building and Theater[223]
Illinois Central Railroad Swing Bridge[183]
Glessner House[150]
Getty Tomb[148]
Oakdale Avenue District[264]
Home Bank and Trust Building[171]
McGill House[233]
Haskell-Barker-Atwater Buildings[161]
Marshall Field and Company Building[228]
Goldblatt Bros. Department Store[152]
McCormick Row House District[232]
Bissell Street District[40]
Kenna Apartments[198]
860-880 Lake Shore Drive[18]
Longwood Drive District[217]
Chicago Harbor Lighthouse[77]
Heald Square Monument[165]
Second Presbyterian Church[321]
Wingert House[383]
Chicago & North Western Railway Powerhouse[67]
Auditorium Building[32]
Sheridan Trust and Savings Bank Building[325]
Inland Steel Building[187]
Montgomery Ward & Co. Catalog House[247]
Fisher Studio Houses[134]
Indian Boundary Park Fieldhouse[186]
Dr. Philip Weintraub House[378]
Sydney Kent House[199]
Three Arts Club[347]
Belmont-Sheffield Trust and Savings Bank Building[37]
Monadnock Block[246]
Mid-North District[241]
Engine Company 61[116]
Drake Fountain[104]
Tribune Tower[349]
Colvin House[87]
Daley Center[95]
Oakland District[265]
Garfield Boulevard "L" Station and Overpass[144]
Essanay Studios[126]
Walser House[367]
Cosmopolitan State Bank Building[91]
Chicago Building[73]
Chicago City Bank and Trust Building[74]
Chicago & Northwestern Railway Bridge[68]
South Shore Cultural Center[330]
Hull House[173]
On Leong Merchants Association Building[273]
Jewelers Row District[192]
Thalia Hall[344]
Humboldt Park Boathouse Pavilion[175]
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Bridges (Pair)[205]
Union Station[354]
Whistle Stop Inn[381]
Congress Theater[88]
Truevine Missionary Baptist Church Building[350]
Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist[108]
Bush Temple of Music[49]
Dewes House, Francis J.[99]
Laramie State Bank Building[206]
Humboldt Park Receptory Building and Stable[176]
Dewes House, August[98]
Men's and Ladies' Comfort Station[327]
Carbide and Carbon Building[57]
333 North Michigan Building[14]
Chicago Theatre[81]
Four Houses by Architect Frederick Schock[140]
35 East Wacker Building[15]
Engine Company 129, Truck 50[120]
Chicago Defender Building[75]
Fremont Row House District[141]
Site of First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction[262]
Yale Apartments[388]
Washington Square Park, Chicago[371]
Keck-Gottschalk-Keck Apartments[197]
Burling Row House District[48]
Engine Company 5, Truck 2[113]
Marquette Building[226]
Calumet Park Fieldhouse[55]
Steuben Club Building[335]
Engine Company 78[118]
Blackstone Hotel[42]
Union Stock Yard Gate[355]
Victory Monument[361]
Kaufmann Store and Flats[196]
Chicago Orphan Asylum Building[85]
Madonna Della Strada Chapel[220]
Shedd Park Fieldhouse[324]
Brooks Building[44]
Milwaukee-Diversey-Kimball District[245]
Noble-Seymour-Crippen House[258]
All Saints Church and Rectory (Ravenswood, Illinois) [22]
Abraham Lincoln Monument[212]
Engine Company 59, Truck 47[115]
DuPont-Whitehouse House[105]
American Book Company Building[24]
Schlect House[316]
Kenwood District[200]
LaSalle Street Cable Car Powerhouse[207]
Vorwaerts Turner Hall[364]
(Former) Engine Company 27[121]
Belle Shore Apartment Hotel[46]
Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District[41]
Giles-Calumet District[149]
Nickerson House[257]
Five Houses on Avers District[135]
Astor Street District[31]
Courthouse Place[92]
Site of the John and Mary Jones House[194]
New Regal Theater[253]
St. Ignatius College Prep Building[334]
Stock Yards National Bank Building[336]
John and Clara Merchant House[236]
St. Gelasius Church Building[333]
Villa District[362]
Seven Houses on Lake Shore Drive District[322]
Village North Theatre[363]
Gauler Twin Houses[146]
Logan Square Boulevards District[215]
Adams House[20]
Timestamp: 2010-03-11 17:41:26 UTC

Permalink Reply by Andrew Bedno on March 11, 2010 at 6:50am

Need this as KML. In Google Earth there's probably a landmarks layer, from which it may be possible to selectively export. Even without any further automation, having a proper source data set finishes most of the idea.