1. •  
     CommentAuthorJules
   • CommentTimeMay 27th 2006 edited

    
   Create a new thread in this category to describe your suggestion or bug.
   
   But have a look around first to see if someone else has already discussed it.
2. •  
     CommentAuthorJules
   • CommentTimeMay 27th 2006

    
   Cool. It works ;-)
3. • CommentAuthorBleve
   • CommentTimeMay 27th 2006

    
   Suggestions : ranking for routes - ie: someone puts up a route, and others can rank it for speed, safety etc
   categories for rides - commutes, family tootles, training rides etc
   location (broadly) - state, city, suburb to suburb etc
4. •  
     CommentAuthorJules
   • CommentTimeMay 27th 2006

    
   See the "create a new thread" bit ;-)
5. • CommentAuthoraeek
   • CommentTimeMay 28th 2006

    
   I think you shoulld add a mandatory State/Territory field ASAP and give yourself the ability to update it too.
   Its getting out of hand.
6. • CommentAuthorfrosty
   • CommentTimeMay 28th 2006 edited

    
   Please delete my route "test route" . I am not happy with it.
   
   Is it possible to be able to create a route, view it, amend it and then put it live when you are happy with it.
   At present, you cannot delete it, hence my request to delete my route.
7. • CommentAuthorastroboy
   • CommentTimeMay 28th 2006 edited

    
   All working perfectly. This is utterly brilliant. Hope to be topping by quite often.
   
   Thanks for setting this up and I hope it grows fast.
8. • CommentAuthorSlogFester
   • CommentTimeMay 28th 2006

    
   Hi Jules,
   
   BIG thank you for doing this.... its what the e-bicycle world has been waiting for. I found a *small* problem:
   
   I noticed that my long preamble at the starting point of my ride (QLD BNE
   Chelmer crit training circuit) ran over the pop-up area. Is it automatically
   scaleable?
   
   Slogfester
9. •  
     CommentAuthorJules
   • CommentTimeMay 28th 2006

    
   Slog - I'm not sure that it is, but I will look into it and see what I can do.
10. • CommentAuthorSlogFester
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2006

     
    And is the pop-up box moveable? Sometimes, it just gest in the way and you just want to drag it elsewhere ;)
11. • CommentAuthorTreadly&Me
    • CommentTimeMay 29th 2006

     
    Bloody good work Bikely.
    
    A couple of to-of-the-head suggestions, probably said by others but here we go:
    
    * be able to delete a point and have the points on either side join up
    * be able to move points (to correct their position)
    * delete whole routes
    * be able to copy routes and extend/edit them
    
    It's a great tool - keep up the good work.
12. • CommentAuthorknobblysnail
    • CommentTimeJun 3rd 2006

     
    A great site - I'll definitely link to it from our BUG site.
    
    Would it be difficult to get the buttons to work in Opera?
13. •  
      CommentAuthorJules
    • CommentTimeJun 4th 2006

     
    Which Opera version/platform are you running? What do the buttons do / fail to do?
14. • CommentAuthorpetermccallum
    • CommentTimeJun 5th 2006

     
    Hi, love the idea.
    
    Can you licence the code so that we can put a localised version on our Bicycle Mackay website so that people can open at thier local area and readily find commute routes locally.
    
    Some way to link to a database of people who use that route would be good too as a campaign tool and a means of allowing commuters to meet up.
    
    P
15. • CommentAuthorAih
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2006

     
    I would like to suggest a map with danger points on it. This would help people with route planning
16. • CommentAuthorskiman65
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2006

     
    Great site! Saw it mentioned on The Age. A few suggestions:
    - some code to add features like water fountains/taps, uphill sections using a '<<' symbol
    - ability to leave public/private comments to a submitter
    
    skiman65
17. •  
      CommentAuthorJules
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2006 edited

     
    oh wow... it's in The Age... guess I'd better set some time aside to work on some more bugs and feature requests!
    
    Thanks for the feedback everyone - rest assured I'm taking note of all of it, even if I don't respond to every forum thread.
18. • CommentAuthorTimC
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2006

     
    Knobblysnail, Jules -- I seem to have the same problem with opera? The login/create/add buttons up top simply do nothing when pressed. Opera 8.54 under linux. I eventually logged in by coming to this forum, and finding the "you are not sign in, login here" (paraphrased) link.
19. • CommentAuthorTimC
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2006

     
    And this comments box, once I press "add your comments", the button text changes to "wait", and just sits there indefinitely. Yet the text makes it to the forum...
    
    Opera is teh non-determinismator!
20. • CommentAuthorjgriffin
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2006

     
    Fantastic! I see a need to be able to upload a GPS file, especially for the off road bike rides where the sat photos are poor resolution and I'd just be guessing with my mouse click. Keep it up -- awesome mashup!
21. • CommentAuthorKingsley
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2006

     
    Great work, on Sydney Morning Herald front epage today,
    
    Agree with adding Postcode/State/Territory/Country ? field ASAP,
    
    maybe also a "sandbox" to try stuff out before saving into real database.
    
    Keep it up and congratulations
22. • CommentAuthormedwards
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2006

     
    Great tool, but I can't create a route in Firefox (using FF 1.5.0.4 on WinXP Pro, cookies enabled etc etc). No probs with *spit*IE*spit* onthe same platform.
23. •  
      CommentAuthorJules
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2006

     
    hmmm that's exactly what I'm using, FF 1.5.04, XP Pro. Try a SHIFT-reload to ensure you've got the latest .js files? Cookies, Javascript enabled? What goes wrong when you try?
24. • CommentAuthorJeunj
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2006

     
    Need GPS integration
25. •  
      CommentAuthorJules
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2006

     
    Buttons are now fixed in Opera. As a bonus, you should even be able to save your route in Opera now, too ;-) (was a bug in version 8)
26. • CommentAuthorPeter B
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2006 edited

     
    Great site!!
    
    My suggestions:
    
    - Some way to view ‘most popular’ routes within an area based on times viewed.
    - Some way to provide feedback or questions for a route that you look at.
    - Some way to view all the routes returned from a search on a map of the area. That would help to see if someone has already done one you are thinking of adding as well as helping select the one that suits you best if looking for one. Eg To bring up all the ‘Melbourne’ routes on a map of the city.
    - Perhaps a way to classify routes as ‘city commute’, ‘cross town’, ‘scenic’, 'group ride', ‘hills training’, ‘road training’ (etc) and allow search to use that criteria.
    
    Hope that helps.
27. • CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2006

     
    Photos - and the ability to easily append them to your routes. If you do this I'll take my camera tommorow and document all the difficult parts. I'm also interested in someone elses comments (excuse my laziness) about rating routes. Perhaps what would work better is to start discussion on problem spots that everyone agrees on. We could then direct the relevant Mayor etc. to the discussion and the map and say "if you realy want people to cycle, fix this bit..."
    
    Anyway, this is my second post and I am still very excited. A great system and I am extreemly positive that it was featured in the SMH. Perhaps this is the tipping point (oh god, someone calm me down).
28. • CommentAuthormissytigger
    • CommentTimeJun 8th 2006

     
    Rather than set routes, it would be great just to mark the bike friendly streets (like a street directory for bikes).
29. • CommentAuthorCloseburn
    • CommentTimeJun 8th 2006

     
    Utterley fantastic, great work. It so simple, yet highly effective :)
    Agree with previous posts about extra functionality for searching / classification and editing , but I think priority need for a map system is improved PRINTING ability.
    How about tagging favourites, that come up when you log in ?
    Thanks again, Happy Trails Angus.
30. • CommentAuthorcjhenning1
    • CommentTimeJun 9th 2006

     
    This is a fantastic site. Compelling. Addictive.
    But can I suggest
    1) on the site itself, navigation buttons on every page (Home, Forum, Maps etc) because currently it is hard to navigate.
    2) on the maps - colour distinctively (blue instead of green perhaps) the points where the compiler has written a comment. Comments are very often useful to first-time users of the route, and it would help not to have to trawl through all those where the compiler is silent. The route tour thingy doesn't work on my Mac (or it may work, but I can't wait 8 hours for it to decide if it will or not.)
    3) It would be also nice if compilers could suggest what sort of riders they think their route suits, perhaps from A (bulletproof lycra-clad superheroes) to D (overweight middle-aged gits in worn out t-shirts -- like me). In particular I'd like to be able to tell whether a rider is expected to be confident in traffic or not.
31. • CommentAuthorkrt
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2006

     
    Hey,
    
    Looks good.
    
    Visitors / creators should be able to add comments to the
    (a) Whole route (e.g.: "Nice ride along the lake, my kids love it")
    (b) A set of nodes (e.g.: "No shoulder <here> to <here>")
    (c) At a specific node (e.g.: "Good pie shop con corner")
    
    -kt
32. • CommentAuthortrpropst
    • CommentTimeJun 14th 2006

     
    Great site.
    
    I'd like a permanent link to "my routes" so I can send it to my friends.
    I'd also love to see auto routing between points to avoid having to make so many waypoints.
33. • CommentAuthorDavey
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2006

     
    This is awesome! You ought to be congratulated Bikely!
    Is there a way yet to edit existing routes?
    I started one but had to leave after adding the first point - do I have to start again or can I edit/extend my route?
34. •  
      CommentAuthorJules
    • CommentTimeJun 18th 2006 edited

     
    Yep you can edit routes, read this.
35. • CommentAuthoralwaysmiling
    • CommentTimeJun 26th 2006 edited

     
    G'day Jules
    
    I use an iMac with OS X 10.2.8 and Safari 1.0.3 When I click on a link to a route the page loads but I don't see any route map. I can see everything above where the route maps should be, The links above on the left like Create route don't work. Where the route map should be I see two frames.
    
    Hope you can help as I would like to add some routes forrides in Sydney Australia.
    Thank you
36. •  
      CommentAuthorJules
    • CommentTimeJun 26th 2006

     
    Hi - Unfortunately I don't have a Mac to test on, however I think there's a good chance that you might need to upgrade to Safari 1.2 for the maps to work.
37. • CommentAuthorangelotrivelli
    • CommentTimeJul 18th 2006 edited

     
    This is a really great web-app. Thanks for the wonderful resource!
    
    Three suggestions:
    
    1) Allow a "ride description" independent of waypoints
    2) Radio-button categories for waypoints (eg directions, warning, notes, etc). So that the points can have different icons on the map.
    3) Perhaps be able to generate a cue sheet by automatically culling direction waypoints?
38. • CommentAuthorApolloB
    • CommentTimeJul 20th 2006

     
    First I would like to give the group who started this with a pat on the back for a job well done.
    
    My suggestion to enhanced the information and to group of bike lovers is to added more definition to what kind of bike "can" be use for each route. A lot of people will travel with perhaps a folding touring bike and may not be sufficient for te terrain. I can also expect that most of the "paved road" or "bike paths" can use any bike including racer models.
    
    I will be traveling with a folding bike and would consider it a touring bike so it would help if the bike route I'm about to take can be relatively pleasant ride with what I ride. If a mountain bike is more appropriate for the path, then it should indicate suggest it as such and not find people stranded with their bike breaking along the way because it wasn't approriate to the type of terrain.
39. • CommentAuthorcrankharder
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2006

     
    This site might also be a great forum for sharing bicycle commute routes. With that in mind it'd probably be a good idea to set up a way to classify the routes, be it a commuter route, a recreational route, road route, trail route (that might be hard to do w/ Gmaps though) or whatever else, and of course, a way to search by this new property. Just a thought.....Otherwise, awesome! :)
40. •  
      CommentAuthorbeerbajay
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2006 edited

     
    I request a finer grained breakdown of "United Kingdom." It should have the official regions of England
41. • CommentAuthorRadlermass
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2006

     
    Thank you for this nearly perfect resource. Some suggestions after input of 5 routes:
    - It would be nice, if a route could be devided into two parts with no connection between the two parts but the two parts shown in one bike route. Reason: If we have not a roundtrip, than the question arises, how to return to the start point from the end point. In Germany the answer is very often: Travel by local trains. But the rest of the route from the final train station to the start of the route has also to be done by bycicle and therefor to be documented on the map.
    - It must become easier to remove entire sections of a route. Today you have to move point by point, which is very frustrating on large distances. I suggest to mark the start and end point of the section in error and delete all points between these two points by ONE click. After this it should be allowed to create as many new points between these two points as needed.
    - It should be possible to mark the different qualities of the road in the route by different colours.
    - A general header to define the route for newcomers (flat or mountains, highlights of the route, possible dangers etc) will be useful
    - It should be possible to print the route in the 'Satellite/Hybrid' form, which is already available with basic Google Earth
    - After youn have edited and saved your route, it should be possible to retun to the home page of bikely.com by a return button. Today you have to move back by the return button of your browser.
42. • CommentAuthorcoljones
    • CommentTimeJul 31st 2006

     
    Hi Jules, could we have major features searchable eg M2, M4, M5, M7 and central railway and sydney airport etc I haven't tried tullamarine in Melbourne.
    
    Nice site and thanks for all the work you have put in.
    
    cheers
    
    Col
43. • CommentAuthorJoeBackward
    • CommentTimeAug 1st 2006

     
    This is brilliant. Thanks!
    
    It would be wonderful if routes could be entered using Google Earth paths, or perhaps from the tracks in MotionBased.com.
    
    This would make it easy to create paths based on GPS logging, and your catalog of rides would get bigger faster.
44. • CommentAuthorstephanosbacon
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2006

     
    Hi, I'm running firefox 1.5.0.6 and when I print it no longer prints out the comments. This worked on an earlier version of Firefox (although map printing has never worked quite right - it doesn't print out the section of the map on which the route is overlayed: it just prints the route).
    
    A suggestion: You have the comments in the .gpx file, you might want to add a link along the lines of "download comments only" and run it through a stylesheet that essentially generates a cue sheet.
    
    -steph
45. •  
      CommentAuthorJules
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2006

     
    You're right, comments printing is broken right now.. I will fix this ASAP. It should be on a seperate page to the map, so that you can simply exclude the map page if all you want printed is the cue sheet.
46. • CommentAuthoreyeless
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2006

     
    I really like the site, but one problem is that if one wants to get as correct as possible on the length of a tour, one needs like 100 points per 10 kilomtres. Doing a tour of ones ride isn't very easy then and adding comments on the points becomes pointless. Another problem is that the maps are not always correct and some roads are missing, but, I guess it is as good as it gets right now. (My comments on freeform categorisation in another thread is something that would be helpful if you really want people to categorize rides at all (I guess I would not be able to categorise any of the rides I was thinking of putting up as it is now -- at least not in any meaningful way).) (If one has like me 400 points in a 40 km ride -- it would be better to show some directional arrows on the red lines, so people could know in which direction to go.) Maybe it would be even better than points, if one could "write" the red line (with the mouse) and then insert flags on it later on?? (Just my thoughts ... .) /Jerry
47. • CommentAuthorjona
    • CommentTimeAug 10th 2006

     
    This is a great site, but I've accidentally created a route and submitted it, without realising it would be there for everyone to see. Is it at all possible to delete the route? I've deleted all the points on the route anyway, I just don't like it sitting there at the top of the routes list. Sorry...
48. • CommentAuthorcoljones
    • CommentTimeAug 14th 2006

     
    Hi Jules along with the delete map mentioned by Jona would it be possible to have a map name (URL name) follow a title - I called one of mine "draft ....." and now it is final but the URL still says "draft............"
    
    cheers
    
    Col
49. •  
      CommentAuthorJules
    • CommentTimeAug 14th 2006

     
    Route can be deleted by clicking "My Routes" in the navigation on the home page and clicking the "delete" button next to the relevant route.
    
    Coljones - agree that that can be a tad annoying. URLs are derived from the initial route title, and can't be changed after the fact because changing URLs is rather bad form (i.e. what if someone already linked to it?).
    
    A solution I will implement in the future will be to avoid setting the URL in stone until the route is marked "visible" after completion.
50. • CommentAuthorwheelo
    • CommentTimeAug 15th 2006

     
    Love the site - I'd like to echo Peter B's comments from June: I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and a lot of routes go through several towns, making searching for routes tougher; it would be great to just view all routes in an area, or even more ideally, view the most popular routes in an area.

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