| Title: | Bicycling |
| Notice: | Bicycling for Fun |
| Moderator: | JAMIN::WASSER |
| Created: | Mon Apr 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3214 |
| Total number of notes: | 31946 |
There's a topic in here somewhere for bike-related computer
applications but I can't find it - if anyone knows the location offhand
please enter it here and I'll move this.
On a recent club ride, the mileages on the route sheet were inaccurate
- someone had mismeasured or had spliced a couple of rides together
without doing the arithmetic correctly. We missed a turn that was
almost a mile before the sheet indicated, rode up a hill, realized our
mistake, rode *down* the hill and up another, steeper hill to get back
on course. That got me to thinking...
It would be "a simple matter of programming" (!) to make a PC
application that allowed one to store a representation of the roads in
an area, and generate route sheets from the information. It would
naturally have a snazzy GUI that displayed the information as a network
of intersections and roads (not a real map) and allowed the user to
pick out the route by clicking on roads. The user could then print the
route sheet with mileages and turn instructions magically filled in
from information stored in the database.
I've been looking for an interesting application to get me into Windows
programming. This would be more for my own amusement (and to give away
if it were good enough) than for commercial potential. However, I'd be
interested to know if someone knows of a similar application (not
necessarily bike-related) before I get too involved.
(I realize this is not a trivial task, and perhaps I'll get overwhelmed
by it and go back to Castle Wolfenstein - the *real* reason the PC was
invented...)
Thanks,
Andy
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| 2573.1 | ROWLET::AINSLEY | Less than 150 kts. is TOO slow! | Fri May 21 1993 09:22 | 5 | |
In the U.S. there is a product called AutoMap that does that for travel between cities in the U.S. It doesn't have quite the detail you are looking for, but seems to be just fine for car travel. Bob | |||||
| 2573.2 | If You Want the Rights... | LHOTSE::DAHL | Customers do not buy architectures | Fri May 21 1993 10:35 | 10 |
RE: <<< Note 2573.0 by RPSTRY::ATIS::BODGE "Andy Bodge" >>> > I've been looking for an interesting application to get me into Windows > programming. This would be more for my own amusement (and to give away > if it were good enough) than for commercial potential. If you even dream of selling it, be sure to stay a million miles away from DEC resources during development. In particular, don't develop it on a company- provided computer. Otherwise the software will be DEC property. -- Tom | |||||
| 2573.3 | RPSTRY::ATIS::BODGE | Andy Bodge | Fri May 21 1993 10:50 | 7 | |
No problem, Tom - the system is at home, and DEC takes money out of my
paycheck every week to remind me that I bought it...
I've seen AutoMap and heard of similar products. The key difference
here would be the ability to enter detailed local information about
roads including stuff of particular interest to cyclists, such as
surface, traffic, hills etc.
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| 2573.4 | Japanese, #$%^&*! | NQOPS::CLELAND | Centerline violation... | Sat Jun 05 1993 14:23 | 3 |
Small insight:
Automap was developed in Japan.
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