Biking DC Mashup

DC’s bike lanes and routes drawn on a Google Map.

BikingDC Google Map MashupInspired by the Apps for Democracy contest which encouraged developers to build useful applications from DC’s Data Catalog, I built a Google Maps mashup which displays bike lanes and signed bike routes. Use the map as a starting to point to plan your ride through the city.

Tech Notes

The ‘Bicycle Lane‘ and ‘Signed Bike Route‘ KMZ files from the DC Data Catalog are used. Data is pulled daily. Before displaying, the files are filtered to display only existing bike lanes.

6 Comments
  1. Jim Connolly Nov 24th, 2008

    Very cool!

  2. A Nov 24th, 2008

    My kingdom for something like this in San Francisco and the East Bay!!! http://amarpai.com/bikemap/bikemap.html comes close…

  3. Julio Costa Nov 30th, 2008

    Take a look at OpenCycleMap.org
    I think you will find a really nice surprise.

    Cheers

  4. Peter Corbett Dec 2nd, 2008

    This is great Lokesh! I showed DC’s CTO your app and he thought it was wonderful that you were inspired to create this subsequent to the contest ending. I’ve posted it to the applications directory here:

    http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/biking-dc-mashup/

    Peter

  5. Dennis Mueller Feb 8th, 2009

    Greetings! Ive Voted for You ;-)
    Why is there no Screenshot on the AppsFor… Site?

    greetings from germany,
    Dennis

  6. WARLOCKMAN Aug 25th, 2009

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