Posts tagged ‘google’
Google Maps bike route fix
April 8th, 2010 at 9:24 am by Dr. Drang
As I said at the end of this post last month, I sent Google a bug report about their new bicycling directions. I had tested out the new feature by asking it for the directions from my home to office, a route that I bike almost every weekday 8-9 months of the year. The directions…
Bike mileage and spreadsheet embedding
April 4th, 2010 at 10:50 am by Dr. Drang
Early last month, I started another spreadsheet at Google Docs to track my bike mileage for the year. It’s simply a copy of last year’s spreadsheet, which worked out quite well. Here’s a live embed of the spreadsheet that will update through the year. It’s not that I think you’re all that interested in tracking…
Google bike directions
March 10th, 2010 at 11:59 pm by Dr. Drang
I’ve been using Google Maps to choose bike routes for years. The route I took today from my office to downtown Naperville, for example, uses a set of residential streets and sidewalks along busy roads that I first found by studying its aerial photos. Now Google has a specific option for getting bicycling directions. I…
