I had a zillion things to blog about, but instead of doing that tonight I finished tracing all of my Ohio bicycle rides from this past August and September onto a Google map that I had started some time back.
Why trace, you might ask? Why not import my GPS waypoints into the Google map? There are two reasons:
1. It’s just too time consuming that way to import. On my rides I stop a lot, and especially at those places the GPS creates a whole bunch of points in the general vicinity that need to get cleaned up. It’s faster just to trace the route by hand, referring to the GPS data in another window to help me remember just which roads I took.
2. Tracing my route, road by road and turn by turn, helps me to re-live the rides. Doing it brought to my memory things I had started to forget. I have my photos to help me, but there are also things I never photographed. I’ve now captured them for a little while longer.
Here is a link to the full google map, which might be easier to use than trying to use the little window above. Just in case anyone cares. Maybe it will help someone find good places to ride. I can’t recommend against any of the roads I took, but so many of the roads in this part of Ohio are good for riding — a lot more than those I’ve tried personally.
I still have lots of blog entries and photos to post, and most of those aren’t shown yet, or even written.
I enjoy point-to-point touring, but I also enjoy this kind of riding in which I recross and revisit old routes and get to know a particular area well.
John,
I don’t know if you use Google Earth Plus, but I just noticed that it has been discontinued. Existing customers may stay on it until it expires, downgrade to Free Google or upgrade to Pro at a discounted price.
They hope to add GPS tracking to the free version in the future.
i forgot to post the URL about it:
http://earth.google.com/enterprise/earth_plus_details.html