Google maps adds bicycling routes
March 10th, 2010 | 
Author: I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. At one point, I started working on a program that would use Google’s map tools to create bicycle routes, but the programming was a little over my head.
<blockquote><a href=”http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/03/google-maps-for-bikes?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29″>Google Maps Finally Adds Bike Routes<br> (click here for complete article on Wired.com)</a>
At long last, Google Maps has routes specifically for bikes.
With the click of a mouse, the new feature allows you to plot the best (and flattest!) ride from Point A to Point B. Several cities, including New York, Minneapolis, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, have bike-specific mapping sites. But Google is rolling it out in 150 cities nationwide and announcing it Wednesday at the 10th Annual Bike Summit in Washington, D.C.
“This has been a top-requested feature from Google Maps users for the last couple years,” says Shannon Guymon, product manager for Google Maps. “There are over 50,000 signatures on a petition.”</blockquote>
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