55 Free Bike Route Mapping Tools
I posted a couple of pages a while back, one covering cycling logs and the other about mapping tools. Most of the maps sites listed in the following article are on that page. I made an attempt to create a feature comparison chart but I’m not sure it is complete.
I mentioned that the palm device I’ve been using has gotten old–not me, the device. I think I’ve found the right way to keep my cycling log. I like both BikeJournal and Mapmyride and have been entering the few rides I’ve done this winter on both since the first of the year.
Looking around I began to see GPS devices everywhere. With Garmin introducing a new line, the 305 Edge dropped down to $240 on Ebay and I bit. I’ve only used it twice but it seems to work flawlessly and best of all, plugging in the USB pulls the day’s ride right into Training Center software. I can import it just as easily to Mapmyride. Bike Journal doesn’t provide for that. MapMyRide has lots of reports. I like its compatibility with my Garmin though it doesn’t pull in heart rate information. I may continue to enter data by hand since it avoids the extra step of creating a map which I do not want for every ride.
–Anyway, Bike Hacks has a long list of sites that provide cycling maps online. –Corrie
55 Free Bike Route Mapping Tools
January 25th, 2008 by Bren · 3 Comments
Crickey, there are a lot of ways to map your bike route! This list focuses on freely available versions. I’ve caught a lot of them, but I’m sure there are more. If you notice that I missed your favorite free bike route mapping tool, drop it in the comments!
There are plenty of places that’ll sell you a bike map, but I’m mainly interested in maps that are offered for free. And, amazingly, these aren’t all variations on (the excellent) Google Maps. This list is broken into two sections, with only the vaguest notions of organization. The first section are resources that are more global in nature. The second section are more location-specific maps.
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