Non-Profit or Not?
We’ve been batting around the idea of becoming a non profit for almost a year, and have recently set a goal to decide once and for all. We aren’t interested in making a profit with the trip planner,...
View ArticleBikini Bandits
I found this movie clip on the BTA‘s blog. The Bikini Bandits are “a specially trained team of enthusiastic young women” who encourage Danish motorists to slow down to the speed limit. (The bandits...
View ArticleScroll Wheel Zooming Added
A few days ago Google added scroll wheel zooming to their public maps API. Today, I enabled that feature in the trip planner. It was really simple, only requiring the addition of one line of JavaScript...
View ArticleNew Version of Trip Planner Launched
Last week we launched a new version of the trip planner. On the surface, it doesn’t look much different from the previous version, but “under the hoodâ€* it has changed significantly. Moving...
View ArticleLines as Long as You Like
Today, inspired by a recent donation*, I finally got around to speeding up the display of long route lines (i.e., the line marking a route on the trip planner map). Previously, long route lines would...
View ArticlebyCycle is now Open Source
Last week, I released byCycle under the GNU Public License, version 3. Check it out at on the project Web site. Note that trunk is currently broken-ish. The rb-0.4 branch is the current live version.
View ArticleWe won an Alice Award!
Last Saturday Wyatt won an Alice Award for his work on the byCycle Trip Planner. Alice Awards, given out by the BTA each year, are intended to recognize “individuals, businesses, and organizations in...
View ArticleNew York Times Article
In a well rounded article posted on April 4th, New York Times writer Matt Furber highly recommends seeing Portland by bike, and mentions the byCycle Trip Planner as a useful tool for newcomers. The...
View ArticlebyCycle is Down
The server hosting the trip planner had a meltdown yesterday. At this time, it is unknown when or if the site will come back online.
View ArticlebyCycle is Back!
I had some free time and decided to get byCycle back up and running, mainly just for fun (yep, writing code is fun). It’s pretty much the same as it was before (i.e., mostly unchanged since July of...
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