Create Your Own Bike Route On Yahoo? Maybe One day

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This is just a mockup. I have yet to find a site that does this yet.

After visiting Trek.com’s Project One build your own custom bike website I thought well wouldn’t it be awesome to be able to create your own bike route using Yahoo, Google or Bing maps?

I started visiting sites and searching for anyone that may do this. Google kind of does this, but it’s not user friendly. Bing didn’t show up in search results, nor did Yahoo for what I’d like to build. Some other small sites like mapmyride.com try to do this, but the map never displayed on my Apple nor was the site user friendly at all. It was bombarded with ads and basically scared me.

Since I like how pleasant Yahoo Maps are I decided to just design what I want on my own.
Here’s what I was thinking.
You want to bike, but some areas may be downright unsafe.
You want to find different types of routes you may not have known about.
Maybe you don’t want to bike alone.
Maybe you’d like to find a scenic route.
You’d like to be able to tag a ride you visited with your own description.
Maybe you want to create your own bike route by dragging and dropping or adding letters to the map to mark or ‘pin’ areas and tag each pin just for record keeping.

I actually wanted to do this also since I remember there were areas I completely wanted to avoid and thought it would be nice to share with others

So that’s just an idea. Maybe one day it’ll become a reality.

— Zeus ::)
Jul 22, 2010