Washington Bikes Mashup

So I'd been meaning to set up a DC area Bicycle Map with the Google Maps wiki ever since I read about the new "collaborate" tool (to replace the bike trail map which is as slow as Grandma in molasses at Christmas - as my old football coach used to say) a while ago. But I never got to it. Someone beat me to it. It shouldn't take long for us to make this something pretty impressive and complete. This has already grown by leaps and bounds since this morning. By the end of the week I expect it to be the most complete bike map of the area.

Comments

[Chris]

That's pretty nice. It doesn't have a "collaborate" tool, but I have a lot of my bike maps for sharing on www.bikely.com. Here's a collection of training rides (mostly out in the Shenanodah Valley/Luray area, I'm afraid...):
http://www.bikely.com/listpaths/by/cgoulddc

[RC at bArlington]

Cool! The mashup is getting so much traffic and so many edits right now that it is a little slow. Arlington has lots of coverage. Someone in Monkey County has added a lot.

Yes, it has a collaborate tool. Everyone can edit it. Everyone can add information, links, photos.

Everyone can use it. Use the LINK TO THIS BUTTON link on the top right of the map, and you will get a google widget. Everyone can embed this in their blogs and webpages.

Everyone can add to the map and everyone can use the map.

Cool.

[washcycle]

My concern now is that it will be a victim of its own success. I think Google caps a map off at 100 items. We could easily hit that soon. The creator of this map may have to break it up into smaller pieces (by jurisdiction or by facility or something).

You can put more than 100 items, but it breaks it up into pages by order of addition.

[flatland]

Off-topic, but very big deal:

"Mayor Fenty, DDOT and Pepco Sign Right of Entry Agreement"

http://eckington.wordpress.com/category/mbt/