http://info.bycycle.org Get There by Cycle! Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:15:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. http://info.bycycle.org/2008/09/22/bycycle-is-now-open-source/ 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 take a long time to show up, and when a line was too long, it ... http://info.bycycle.org/2007/05/12/long-route-lines/ 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, it should be easier for us to add new features and fix any issues that come up ... http://info.bycycle.org/2007/04/29/new-version-of-trip-planner-launched/ 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 code. This feature has been available on the official Google Maps site for a while, ... http://info.bycycle.org/2007/04/20/scroll-wheel-zooming-added/ 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 seem to have lost their bikini tops. Be forwarned, if you follow the link, you might be ... http://info.bycycle.org/2007/03/16/bikini-bandits/ 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, but would like to some how gather enough money to cover costs and ... http://info.bycycle.org/2007/03/16/non-profit-or-not/ I just got done installing Python 2.5 and converting the trip planner code to use it instead of 2.4. The only required change was pointing the "dispatch" file at the 2.5 executable. No other changes to the code were required to make it run on 2.5. A few little things also ... http://info.bycycle.org/2007/02/11/upgraded-to-python-25/ byCycle now has a store! All proceeds go to support byCycle's projects. We went with a CafePress store because of it's simplicity. It was easy to set up, and allows us to create and sell things on demand. It also makes it easier for you to buy things. Everything is priced at ... http://info.bycycle.org/2007/02/06/bycycle-store/ After months of deliberation, we finally decided to go ahead and remove the Pittsburgh region from the trip planner (and, poof, it's gone). The immediate trigger for the removal was a forwarded email that contained, amongst other things, the following: "Being from Pittsburgh, I chose Pittsburgh. I couldn't get ... http://info.bycycle.org/2007/01/31/pittsburgh-removed-from-trip-planner/ The development version of the Trip Planner uses a Postgres/PostGIS backend (instead of MySQL) SQLAlchemy as the ORM (instead of raw SQL), and PCL for Python geometry types (instead of our own ugly hacked versions). Question: How do you move geometries out of Postgres/PostGIS into PCL types via SQLAlchemy and vice ... http://info.bycycle.org/2007/01/29/using-postgis-with-sqlalchemy/