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Permalink Reply by Jessica on March 10, 2010 at 3:13am

THANK GOD. If you use the walking feature, you'll get put on miles of gravel roads. Ask me how I know. Ha.

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Permalink Reply by Duppie on March 10, 2010 at 3:17am

Did a quick check from Andersonville to Union Station. It sends me down the Lakefront path (not bad), end then down the Riverwalk (not bad either). It then dumps you onto Wacker Drive (WTH?)

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Permalink Reply by Vilda on March 10, 2010 at 3:17am

It's cool but needs ironing. There is an option when you use it that says it's in Beta and you can report mistakes ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Lee Diamond on March 10, 2010 at 3:21am

OF all of the mapping functions I have used for cycling, I trust this the least of all. I would absolutely not trust it until it is ironed out a lot more for a route that was taking me into an area I didn't know that well.



It has continuously attempted to run me the wrong way down 1 way streets, into dead ends, and lots and lots of busy streets.

A much superior bike-friendly mapping feature can be found at

www.mapmyride.com


Obviously, Google is very good about responding to feedback, so comments and feedback will make this function better over time, but now, I would sooner look at a map than use this function.

Cheers - Lee

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Permalink Reply by Duppie on March 10, 2010 at 3:44am

You're comparing apples to oranges. Google gives directions (good or bad), whereas mapmyride allows you to create a route.

I agree with your assessment of Google. Relentless innovation will ultimately make this a great app.

Lee Diamond said:

OF all of the mapping functions I have used for cycling, I trust this the least of all. I would absolutely not trust it until it is ironed out a lot more for a route that was taking me into an area I didn't know that well.

It has continuously attempted to run me the wrong way down 1 way streets, into dead ends, and lots and lots of busy streets.

A much superior bike-friendly mapping feature can be found at

www.mapmyride.com


Obviously, Google is very good about responding to feedback, so comments and feedback will make this function better over time, but now, I would sooner look at a map than use this function.

Cheers - Lee

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Permalink Reply by root on March 10, 2010 at 4:11am

looks like it doesn't support OS X Chrome yet. bummer

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Permalink Reply by igz on March 10, 2010 at 4:17am

direction to work suggest i take alleys through a good portion of the city.

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Permalink Reply by Michael on March 10, 2010 at 4:23am

It will be nice for quickly typing in a route to get a general idea. However, my favorite part about riding is I never really know what my route is going to be, especially through the city.

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Permalink Reply by dan brown on March 10, 2010 at 4:24am

funny. bring a case of spare tubes and watch out for those garbage trucks.

iggi said:

direction to work suggest i take alleys through a good portion of the city.

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Permalink Reply by Lee Diamond on March 10, 2010 at 4:31am

You aren't using Mapmyride to its fullest extent Duppie. To use mapmyride to its fullest extent, you need to sign up, which is free if you can tolerate ads, or you can pay for a membership if you want to avoid the ads. There is an address bar at the top. Enter an address and it will mark an x on the map which allows you to click there. Start there, enter another address, put your mark where the x is. It will automatically route you there, and it usually does a good job.

It has been in existence for 4 years, and Mapmy run for an extra 2. They use Mapquest mapping technology, but have hundreds of thousands of maps and routes to pull information from in intelligent routing. I have rarely had any problems with it and I have used it without an alternate for the last 2 years with dozens of routes created through its assistance.

It is apples and apples.

Cheers - Lee

Duppie said:

You're comparing apples to oranges. Google gives directions (good or bad), whereas mapmyride allows you to create a route.

I agree with your assessment of Google. Relentless innovation will ultimately make this a great app.

Lee Diamond said:

OF all of the mapping functions I have used for cycling, I trust this the least of all. I would absolutely not trust it until it is ironed out a lot more for a route that was taking me into an area I didn't know that well.

It has continuously attempted to run me the wrong way down 1 way streets, into dead ends, and lots and lots of busy streets.

A much superior bike-friendly mapping feature can be found at

www.mapmyride.com


Obviously, Google is very good about responding to feedback, so comments and feedback will make this function better over time, but now, I would sooner look at a map than use this function.

Cheers - Lee

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Permalink Reply by Michael on March 10, 2010 at 4:36am

Like it or not here is the thing about Google. They are constantly gathering data, imagine after just one summer of gathering the routes people use most commonly, via sharing street level data on a android enabled mobile phone, how much better the route suggestions will be.

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Permalink Reply by Lee Diamond on March 10, 2010 at 4:42am

I agree. I think that the thing I am pointing out is that now, the system is suggesting very dangerous, un-=bike friendly routing. Using it blindly now could be a very bad thing.

Google has repeatedly proven their ability to improve through user input and I am sure this will be the case here as well.

Michael said:

Like it or not here is the thing about Google. They are constantly gathering data, imagine after just one summer of gathering the routes people use most commonly, via sharing street level data on a android enabled mobile phone, how much better the route suggestions will be.

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