So, this Google routes thing.

[sara]

Has anyone tried out the new Google cycle routing thing? Any thoughts?

Locally, it picks up none of my municipality's extensive bicycle-and-pedestrian routes, and seems to ignore those streets which have become de facto bike-and-local-car-only routes.

I think I'm sticking with Bikely for now, alas.

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[sara]

That makes me think they're mostly focusing on large cities at this point, then, because Eugene's bike maps are certainly available electronically, and yet in Google-land we have no bike paths.

[darkemeralds]

The official word is "150 cities" were rolled out on day one. This was from BikePortland (terrific blog if you don't already follow it), whose editor interviewed the Google product manager guy at the Bike Summit in DC a couple of days ago.

The video on Maps.Google.com/bicycles says "hundreds of cities," so you know it'll be just like everything else Google does: improvements and expansions will just start appearing.

[sara]

Yeah, our local public transit coverage spontaneously got much, much better sometime in the last couple of weeks, so I imagine that at some point the bike directions will, too.