Bikesy route planner
Route planning that takes hills and bike infrastructure into account.
People biking in the Bay Area
Routing engines · Mobile & web apps · Open-source development
People biking in the Bay Area
Routing engines · Mobile & web apps · Open-source development
Project overview
The challenge
The shortest route is not always the best bike route. Riders need choices that reflect how they feel about hills, traffic, and bike infrastructure.
Our work
We built a route-planning service with nine route combinations across three hill tolerances and three bike-infrastructure preferences, plus turn-by-turn directions and elevation profiles. It uses OpenStreetMap data: missing bike lanes, route connections, and other cycling information can be added to OpenStreetMap and incorporated when the routing data is refreshed.
A version for Lake Tahoe
We created Tahoe Bike Mapper for the Lake Tahoe Bicycle Coalition, adapting the planner for Tahoe residents and visitors. We improved local OpenStreetMap connections and road classifications for the routing engine.
Routing other developers could use
Bikesy’s routing API allowed other developers to add bike directions to their applications. Bay Tripper, an iPhone app, used the API for its bike routes.
Bike route planning on iPhone
We created a native iOS app alongside the web planner. The routing server, web interface, and mobile apps are open source.
Press coverage
Source code
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