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Keep a map of Philly bike lanes in your pocket! It's the same map we've got here, also featuring a current location option. Check out phillymap.com/m on your iPhone.-
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User input on google maps
Pennsylvania DCNR’s website explorepatrails.com has a lot of good information for trails. It allows people to upload gpx files. It doesn’t seem to have all the trails on the NE PA Bicycle and Hiking Map, but I haven’t compared the site to the map very closely yet. The information that they collect in the database [...]
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New Jersey Statewide Bicycle Route Map Project
Some good news. Today on the New Jersey DOT website, it shows that the RBA Group was awarded the New Jersey Statewide Bicycle Route Map Project. Because I’m part of this this team, I am very pleased about this result. I have wanted to map New Jersey for a long time.
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Cool Philadelphia Bike Jerseys
Jeff Appeltans (and Lara) have been doing very cool things in Philadelphia when it comes to bicycling. I probably met Jeff through the Bicycle Coalition or TimeCycle Couriers many years ago. He’s always taken positive steps to promote bicycling in Philadelphia. Some of the proceeds from the jerseys Jeff sells (above) benefit Neighborhood Bike Works [...]
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Philadelphia Bike Map, and other projects
Last week David Byrne, of the Talking Heads, spoke at Academy of Natural Sciences’ Bicycle Forum with a number of other speakers. Someone asked the question about why you can’t go into a bike shop and get a current Philadelphia Bicycle Map. I was glad to hear Alex Doty, the Bicycle Coalition Director, say, “Steve [...]
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McDonald’s? Conservation Landscape Initiative?
I don’t usually go to McDonalds, but I needed a place to write down meeting notes after my meeting at Nescopeck State Park, just north of White Haven, PA. While at the park, I forgot to photograph the snow-shoe announcement and the frozen lake, or even the beautiful park office. The last time I was [...]
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Map section of the Free Library
I have always enjoyed browsing old maps at the Main Branch of the Free Library in Philadelphia. And, when I first came to visit, Richard Boardman had the 1974 version of the Bicycle Commuters Map posted. In grad school, I’d find old maps showing the city before the Parkway was built or maps of Fairmount [...]
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Bicycle PA Route Map Update
Rough samples of our Bicycle PA panels
1899 Regional Bike Map
Back in the late 1800′s, there were lots of bike maps. Here’s a photo of a portion of the regional bike map from that period. The map is titled: “Cyclists Road Map of the Philadelphia District”, by Geo. H. Walker & Co. The red refers to: “Best routes shown thus.” If you like old maps [...]
A ride to Old City Coffee
Jenkintown to Old City Coffee
My maps on an ipad