Maps useful for RBT posters

In a similar, and perhaps more pertinent vein, Google has started
showing bicycle routes in its online maps. Pretty cool, I checked out
some Boston routes, they need to get their camera bike and get "street
view" of our side paths.

Gary Kunstmann

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Mar 10, 2010, 12:08:22 PM3/10/10

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Peter Cole wrote:
> carl...@comcast.net wrote:

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>> Cheers,
>>
>> Carl Fogel
>
> In a similar, and perhaps more pertinent vein, Google has started
> showing bicycle routes in its online maps. Pretty cool, I checked out
> some Boston routes, they need to get their camera bike and get "street
> view" of our side paths.

Tried the Google Maps bicycling option in and around my area. I reside
in a mostly rural area with many unpaved, supposedly, gravel roads.
Many of them are suitable only for knobby tired bikes (soft sand or deep
mud when wet.) No option exists to limit route to roads more suitable
for us roadies. Too bad, but maybe a future upgrade.

Tosspot

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Mar 10, 2010, 2:56:59 PM3/10/10

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On 03/10/2010 09:03 AM, carl...@comcast.net wrote:
> Never mind how I stumbled over this entertaining map site.

> Early UK GPS:
>
> http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/314-watch-the-road-worlds-earliest-satnav/

Guildford! Who the fuck would *want* to to to Guildford.

<peers at map> Especially down the A3!

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Tosspot

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Mar 11, 2010, 1:46:03 AM3/11/10

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On 03/11/2010 03:31 AM, Phil W Lee wrote:
> Tosspot <Frank...@gmail.com> considered Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:56:59

> You misunderstand - it's an easily concealable escape map for everyone
> wishing to leave :)
>
> Incidentally, it evolved into the (somewhat larger scale) roller maps
> used by RAF navigators for low level flying in WW2.
> At low altitude, you need a large scale map, and the only sensible way
> to fit that sensibly into the navigators station on a WW2 bomber was
> to make a strip-map of the route and put it on rollers.

You know...that just might be an idea...

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Joy Beeson

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Mar 11, 2010, 7:21:01 PM3/11/10

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On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:03:03 +0000, Phil W Lee
<phil(at)lee-family(dot)me(dot)uk> wrote:

> Possibly worth it for a planned tour though (but for bike use, I'd use
> fanfold instead of roller - it lies flat in a mapcase).

Now I have a picture of a handlebar bag with a crank on the side . . .
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Tosspot

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Mar 12, 2010, 1:17:22 AM3/12/10

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On 03/12/2010 01:21 AM, Joy Beeson wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:03:03 +0000, Phil W Lee
> <phil(at)lee-family(dot)me(dot)uk> wrote:
>
>> Possibly worth it for a planned tour though (but for bike use, I'd use
>> fanfold instead of roller - it lies flat in a mapcase).
>
> Now I have a picture of a handlebar bag with a crank on the side . . .
> Joy Beeson

You see! This is how great ideas are born...

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