Saturday, February 25, 2012

Wikipedia of Maps

Openstreetmap.org has been around for a while now. I like to think of it as the Wikipedia of mapping. It is a worldwide editable map.

BUT, it was just recently pointed out to me that there is a subset of openstreetmap.org called opencyclemap.org which contains road and trail data overlayed on topographical contours. . . how awesome is that?!

AND, someone has updated the McDonald/Dunn Forest area of this open map database to include fairly complete and up-to-date roads and trails (thank you unknown person(s)). This is the first time since the old Pogue map that we have both current trail and current road data, available to the public, for most of the rideable trails in the McDonald/Dunn forest area.

AND, for those of us that ride pavement, the opencyclemap.org data includes paved bike route data also.

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