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byCycle is Back! 5 Dec 2012 | 01:54 pm
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 ’0...
byCycle is Down 7 Jul 2011 | 04:53 pm
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.
New York Times Article 23 Apr 2009 | 10:41 am
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 a...
We won an Alice Award! 12 Mar 2009 | 04:22 pm
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 ...
byCycle is now Open Source 23 Sep 2008 | 11:29 am
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.
Lines as Long as You Like 13 May 2007 | 05:25 pm
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 ...
New Version of Trip Planner Launched 30 Apr 2007 | 11:03 am
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 hood”* it has changed significantly. Moving forward, ...
Scroll Wheel Zooming Added 21 Apr 2007 | 09:13 am
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 JavaScrip...
Bikini Bandits 16 Mar 2007 | 09:44 pm
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 s...
Non-Profit or Not? 16 Mar 2007 | 09:26 pm
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, ...
