Oh, and did I mention that my third bicycle map is finished?
I don't think I've mentioned this yet, so just wanted to let everyone know that I recently finished my third customized bike map of the summer, for use in both the 2D Google Maps and 3D Google Earth; this one covers over 40 small neighborhood parks on the north side of Chicago, using a route that covers roughly 25 miles (40 km) of city streets. As regular readers remember, this map took quite a bit longer to put together than the others I've made, since it contains just so much more information; over 150 photo placemarks, in fact, along with all that online research I had to do about each park's history. Anyway, you can click here to check it out online, and then once there you can click on the "KML" link in the upper-right corner for the Google Earth file; those who are interested can see all of my bike maps by clicking here.
Don't forget, I actually have the photos taken as well for my fourth and fifth maps, which I'll hopefully be getting to this week; the fourth will cover the trip from Uptown to the Loop, using only inner-city paved bike paths (i.e. ones that run along the edges of vehicular streets), and the fifth of course will cover the entire 18-mile lakefront bike path, the trip I made just a few days ago and from which I'm still recovering. (Seriously, I really overdid it on Monday. Remind me of this the next time I try to ride 25 miles in a single day.) Anyway, like I said, you can look forward to those maps as well hopefully soon.
