about veloroutes.org

veloroutes.org was started as a personal project due to the love of cycling and programming. after using other mapping sites, i decided i wanted to make my own mapping site, just the way i want it. this site is the result of that effort (launched 11/2006). it will probably never be finished, so any feedback would be great! (e-mail me at: veloroutes @ gmail)

veloroutes.org features

• save/share/find bicycle routes
• discover new hills, good/bad bicycle routes
• download routes in KML (Google Earth) and GPX (for GPS devices) formats
• get elevation data for the world, topo maps for the US
• generate cue sheets for your rides (added 8/2007)

about me

i'm a software engineer and cyclist in the seattle area - you can read about my rides and other fun stuff on my cycling blog.

now accepting donations

i pay for the (dedicated) hosting costs for the site out of my pocket currently, so any monetary help is greatly appreciated!

if you find this site useful, please think about donating to help pay hosting costs:

info about data sources

• interactive maps: google maps api provides the main data source for street-level & satellite maps, as well as general geocoding. terraserver provides the topographic maps, while iowa state university provides the doppler-radar maps.
• elevation data: USGS elevation service, with earthtools.org as a backup if the USGS returns zero or an error (which happens often).
• map overlays are done using the tphoto googlemaps api extension. (see king county bike map overlay on the seattle page)
• webcams are from various departments of transportation as well as news organizations.
• location data: each route's starting locaiton is automatically set using a reverse-geocoding service from geonames.org. This service is also used for the location information gathered for the cue-sheets.
• weather feeds come from rssweather
• media: flickr and youtube's apis provide the bike photos and bike videos, respectively.
• inspiration from gmap-pedometer among others.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.