{"id":2194,"date":"2007-05-14T12:59:34","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T16:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/mapping_cycing\/"},"modified":"2007-05-14T12:59:34","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T16:59:34","slug":"mapping_cycing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/05\/mapping_cycing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Cycing Routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the interesting tools to emerge for geeky bicyclists during the past few years is mapping technology.  This allows users to chart a route on a map in order to obtain distance, elevation, and other information about the ride.  It also lets you share a course with other people.<br \/>\nStandalone mapping software has been out for a number of years.  But in last couple years several free websites have been launched, bringing the technology to all Internet users.  Among these are:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mapitpronto.com\/\">Map It Pronto<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmap-pedometer.com\/\">Gmap Pedometer<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikely.com\/\">Bikely<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.routeslip.com\/\">Routeslip<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapmyride.com\/\">Map My Ride<\/a><br \/>\nUsing the latter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapmyride.com\/ride\/united-states\/tn\/maryville\/401012605\">here&#8217;s<\/a> the ride I did Sunday:<!-- START MAPMYRIDE.COM EMBED CODE --><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar mmf_type = \"ride\";\nvar mmf_border = \"1px solid #999999\";\nvar mmf_route = \"c5a22a281faf149026719df86070cd9f\";\nvar mmf_width = \"100%\";\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/js.mapmyfitness.com\/embed\/blog.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- END MAPMYRIDE.COM EMBED CODE --><br \/>\nIn short, I started near Heritage High School, followed the Little River to Walland, took Walden&#8217;s Creek Road to Pigeon Forge, looped around Bluff Mountain, and returned on the north side.  It&#8217;s a scenic, somewhat hilly ride.  The map claims there are 6,097ft of climbing on the route.  I think that due to topographical ground noise (or whatever) that figure is significantly overestimated.  I suspect the actual number is somewhere in the 3,000 to 4,000 ft range.  At any rate, it&#8217;s enough to give your legs a workout.<br \/>\nI intended to cap the ride off with a climb up the Foothills Parkway.  But by the time I finished the above loop it was late enough that darkness was becoming a factor.  Plus I wasn&#8217;t feeling too energetic.  So I wimped out and opted for a few more miles along the Little River.  All told I logged 54 sunny miles Sunday afternoon&#8211;an outstanding ending to the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/05\/mapping_cycing\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Mapping Cycing Routes\"><p>One of the interesting tools to emerge for geeky bicyclists during the past few years is mapping technology. This allows users to chart a route on a map in order to obtain distance, elevation, and other information about the ride. It also lets you share a course with other people. Standalone mapping software has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}