Bikely
Posted 19 July 2006 | Filed under Bicycling, GearBikely is a bicycle route sharing tool worth bookmarking. This is pretty much what I envisioned happening a year ago after I stumbled upon Gmaps Pedometer.
There are a lot of projects out there that aim to compute bicycle routes, rather than rely on actual bicyclists simply to document them. I haven’t been too impressed with the computed routes. Meanwhile, the success of the been-there sharing approach depends on lots of cyclists getting behind a service like Bikely. Add your routes!
July 19th, 2006 at 11:29
Very cool, I’ve started my commuter route.
July 19th, 2006 at 16:59
See also http://www.routeslip.com/
July 20th, 2006 at 09:20
[...] I added a couple of routes to the Bikely site.Ã? Bikely seems to be all over the cycling blogsphere this morning (Bike refugee, Cleverchimp, Kent’s bike blog. [...]
July 21st, 2006 at 06:21
This is a great tool. Thank you.
August 14th, 2006 at 14:47
I’m not sure about bikely. I’m definitely going to give it a try, but it seems like working with kid gloves on. The needless framsets, particularly the bottom fram make the workable space of the map tiny on my 15″ powerbook.
It also needs import from gmaps pedometer.
Still… it does have huge potential and is the only route sharing network I know. Route sharing is going to be huge in the future.
Oh… also I do like their “nearby” feature… though I wish there were some routes nearby. SE michigan is to quiet.
Maybe I should help them get their workflow models, usability and interaction models together. Bikely could really rock.
August 16th, 2006 at 11:45
Bikes / Key ingredients for interactive bike maps of the future…
ByCycle and Bikely both bring bike route mapping to the web, and not a minute too soon. Finding bike routes through cities (especially unfamiliar cities) can be a lonely, scary process of elimination. After much experimentation, the best route of…
October 3rd, 2006 at 13:25
Check out WikiWalki – a community site for more sports than just biking.
http://www.wikiwalki.com