RideTheCity is a cool mash-up application that allows you to plan bike routes based on safety and speed. By typing - or selecting - a start and end location in New York City, the application will find the safest and quickest routes by factoring in bike routes for “safest” trips and the shortest travel distance for the quickest trips. “Sometimes the most daunting thing about riding a bike in New York is figuring out the best route to take. How do you get to the bridge entrances? What’s the best way to Central Park from the Hudson River greenway? We created this website to help beginning bicyclists answer those questions,” said founder Jordan Anderson. Sadly the application only works in New York right now but there are alternative sources for other cities. The programmers used NYC’s LION GIS data to find and build routes.http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/25/ridethecitycom-a-google-maps-app-for-safe-biking/
http://ridethecity.com/
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