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Map My Ride Mashup

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April 13, 2007 in Cycling.

I just found a site that is a Google Maps mashup for saving your bike route maps called MapMyRide.com. It is a lot like Gmap Pedometer that I have used before, but you can see other people’s saved maps, find saved maps near you, or just share your maps with friends. I was thinking about building this exact same thing for bikeride.com. A kind of social networking around ride routes, training logs, and events. I think this site is pretty good. I’m sure I will use it if I don’t build something on my own. My profile is here. ~~One thing they don’t have is an RSS feed for my created maps~~ They do have an RSS feed for your rides, so I will add that to this blog.

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1 Andrew Mager Apr 13th, 2007 at 7:40 am

This is a cool site, I still can’t believe you ride that much! Have you ever played with the Google Maps API?
2 Jeff Apr 13th, 2007 at 2:44 pm

Hi, and thanks for checking out MapMyRide. As for RSS feeds for you rides- we do have that feature! There is an RSS link on your “My Rides” page. Good luck and please let us know if you have any more feedback on how we can make the site better (there is a “contact us” link on the page).
3 Brent Apr 13th, 2007 at 3:15 pm

Thanks for the correction Jeff. I should have checked a little closer. I’m going to recommend this to my cycling club friends. I’ve only created a couple of maps so far. I’d also like to be able to create groups (maybe you have this too), so for example I could see all maps for my cycling club, or all logged training miles for the club. It would be cool to see total elevation gained in feet for a ride in addition to the elevation profile.
4 Brent Apr 13th, 2007 at 3:22 pm

Mager - I’ve played some with the Google maps API. I built a page to map all the events on the BikeRide.com database on a map, but it was kind of slow. I need to only show a limited number at a time. I want to give event promoters the ability to set the starting point of their ride or map the route like this site is doing.
5 Scott Holmes May 1st, 2007 at 7:18 am

Brent,

Very interesting Site. I can’t wait to do the Bash Bish 200K again this year. Hope to see you on the Tuesday night ride - it is getting a really good turnout. We have a General Store Loop we do on the weekends I will try and post it.

About Brent

I have been a Web Developer since the early '90s working on some of the highest traffic sites on the internet such as MSN.com and ESPN.com. Since 2007 I have been using Ruby on Rails while working for Sports Technologies, a small internet company in Connecticut, developing features for FanNation.com and Fantasy Sports applications for Sports Illustrated.

I am interested in all things related to Social Media, User Experience, and creating great Web Applications.

I am a Cycling enthusiast who raced competitively for many years, and still try to get out and ride as much as I can. I created the site BikeRide.com and have developed some other cycling related sites in the past.

I am a husband, and the father of two girls. I grew up in western Washington, but now live in Connecticut.

Brent Soderberg