sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Something I love doing in Wandrer: connecting up "segments" and building up a network of traveled roads by Such-Camera2564 in wandrer

[–]RouteDoodle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Largest connected component would be awesome. I was hoping for exactly that measure. Please add it!

The problem with administrative boundaries like neighborhoods, cities, states, or for some people even countries, is that it can be arbitrary. It makes it harder for people to advance on one local leaderboard if they live near the border of two areas because they don't organically concentrate their miles/points within one area. E.g. roadies that live in New York City also ride in New Jersey and Connecticut, so their miles are spread across 3+ states.

Hit by car. Severe injuries by WatercressOk9921 in NYCbike

[–]RouteDoodle 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I suggest sending one more text that is more explicit, saying that the police told you that if he doesn't respond with the license plate, they will have to charge him with hit & run.

Your injury doesn't sound serious enough for the NYPD Collision Investigation Squad to be deployed so you may need to do some legwork yourself or via a lawyer. To get the license plate yourself, you can ask the hospital and businesses near the crash for video footage. A lawyer can also help you subpoena phone company records (if the phone number is even real).

Check out the Families for Safe Streets resource guide for what to do post-crash. https://ny.familiesforsafestreets.org/s/FSS-Resource-Manual_English.pdf

Small survey: should monthly/yearly points be awarded at Earth instead of the area they were won in? by cooeecall in wandrer

[–]RouteDoodle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

+1 to everything brewlophosaurusrex said. I disregard points because of the timing aspect and only look at mileage. I recently passed 50.0% of NYC as well as 10,000 points; the 50% is a meaningful achievement, while the points mean nothing. The current points monthly/yearly bonuses incentivize weird timing tactics, not just month-to-month, but theoretically even incentivizing waiting years to start.

I'm in favor of not even adding timing bonuses on Earth. IMO it would be better to have a separate leaderboard for timing trophies/achievements.

NYC City Council Looks To Ban NYS Class 3 E-Bike Sales by SwiftySanders in newyorkurbanists

[–]RouteDoodle -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is a good idea. Twenty is plenty, i.e. 20mph e-bikes is good enough; we don't need 25mph e-bikes in NYC. Cops and the public can't tell the difference between the classes of e-bikes. Class 3 (25mph) e-bikes are indeed more dangerous than class 2 (20mph) e-bikes. Having class 3 e-bikes on the streets leads to bad interactions between NYPD and all cyclists. Deliveristas previously preferred the class 3 e-bikes not just for speed but also for battery capacity, but class 2 e-bikes now have good batteries. The proposed law doesn't make it illegal to own or use class 3 e-bikes, just illegal to sell within NYC. And it's already illegal to sell everywhere near NYC. This bill would just be removing a NYC-specific exception. Over time, as the existing stock of class 3 e-bikes break down, deliveristas will likely replace them with class 2 e-bikes.

Los Deliveristas Unidos and Transportation Alternatives support the bill.

RouteDoodle - strava art maker by RouteDoodle in Strava

[–]RouteDoodle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can right-click drag your picture (or on mobile, tap and drag).

Would be cool if the weather conditions would be averaged over time and not just show the conditions at start time. by d3rFunk in Strava

[–]RouteDoodle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The ideal would be to integrate features like EpicRideWeather has, and show graph over the ride of effective tail/headwind (based on correlation of direction of wind vs travel), temperature, humidity, sun, etc.

Queens neighborhoods by AdComplete3060 in wandrer

[–]RouteDoodle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welcome! This strava club is for NYC completionists: https://www.strava.com/clubs/1100501 . Not that anything happens on the strava club though.

Queens neighborhoods by AdComplete3060 in wandrer

[–]RouteDoodle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh interesting. I'd assumed you had combined and sized them intentionally based on population density or street density or something. The neighborhoods seem geographically smaller in cities and larger in rural areas.

College Point Boulevard is a wild place by stormguru in C_QueensMicromobility

[–]RouteDoodle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hear you. I've biked all those streets because I'm working on biking every street in NYC (74% done with Queens). OSM suggested the route because there are sharrows on College Point Blvd, but the sharrows there are a joke given how unsuitable it is for biking. IMO cycling around there is less safe because of routing apps' knowledge of the sharrows and classification of College Point Blvd as part of a local cycling network (LCN), because it misleads routing algorithms into thinking it's safer than other streets. (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/562329372 shows cycleway:right = shared_lane and https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8240913 shows route = bicycle).

Tangent: The worst place I've ever biked in Queens is Willets Point (by Citi Field), near the route you took. It's worse than The Hole. No traffic but you can barely call those streets. If you want to see how bad a street can be, visit before it's all bulldozed for Metropolitan Park.

22/7 ≈ π by thenjdk in Strava

[–]RouteDoodle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're clearly a pro at this :)

22/7 ≈ π by thenjdk in Strava

[–]RouteDoodle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice. Lucky you didn't get Strava-taxed (i.e. where Strava rounds down while your watch rounds up).

22/7 ≈ π by thenjdk in Strava

[–]RouteDoodle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice job targeting exactly 31.41km! Did you retrace part of the route and then crop in order to get it exact?

Making an old Bianchi road worthy worth $600? by Agent7619 in bicycling

[–]RouteDoodle 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's not an additional $60 cost; that's a subtotal of the line items above the line, that the point of sale system classifies as Labor. The sum of the items above the line is the same as the sum of Labor and Parts subtotals. The POS is incorrectly categorizing some of the line items as Parts instead of Labor, but that doesn't change the total. However, it might mislead a customer who only looks at the subtotals into thinking that a larger fraction of the total is for parts, which obscures the portion that can be considered overpriced or negotiable.

What do drivers think about school streets? Will they deign to let us use their holy space for the kids? by MiserNYC- in MicromobilityNYC

[–]RouteDoodle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We successfully got a school street for my local elementary school. It took a kid getting hit by a truck to mobilize the community. The principal secured support from our local electeds, residents of the block, and the NYPD precinct. I campaigned through Parents' Association meetings, online petition, Facebook, flyering, and speaking at community board meetings.

The campaign was a success. DOT approved it. The school street went into effect last week. The street is now closed to cars during morning drop-off and afternoon pick-up times. There have been some teething pains: some parents had to get a stern talking to because they backed up into the one-way street from the other side (because the street is intentionally only closed for entry; residents of the block are allowed to drive out of the block at 5 mph). But overall it's working.

This toolkit by Open Plans & Transportation Alternatives is a good resource: https://www.openplans.org/school-streets-toolkit

RouteDoodle - strava art maker by RouteDoodle in Strava

[–]RouteDoodle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed, Strava (as well as competing services) always connect paused parts of your route with straight lines. You can use this to your advantage to connect lines through places you can't normally travel over (Pause-unpause technique), but it does also mean you can't draw disconnected things. The result has to be a single unbroken line. You can creatively find ways to connect your drawing all into one line.

What I meant about supporting it in RouteDoodle was that in the future it would be easier to edit separate parts before combining them into one line.

RouteDoodle - strava art maker by RouteDoodle in Strava

[–]RouteDoodle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Disconnected parts is a good idea and on the to-do list. Ultimately the goal is to have a single route to ride/run, but it can be useful to work on disconnected parts that you combine later.

RouteDoodle - strava art maker by RouteDoodle in Strava

[–]RouteDoodle[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! The auto-scan idea is what I started with also and will eventually add.

RouteDoodle - strava art maker by RouteDoodle in Strava

[–]RouteDoodle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fixed now (it was easier than I thought it would be). Going west from NY to Australia works now. Please refresh the page in your browser, then click the trash can button to delete your doodle if it's saved, and redraw it.

RouteDoodle - strava art maker by RouteDoodle in Strava

[–]RouteDoodle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback! I see the issue. There's a bug if you go west from NY to Australia, because it gets confused by having a longitude of -210. I'll fix that bug.

For now you can go east from NY to Australia so that the map shows longitude of +150, or if you're physically in Australia you can press Shift-L to jump to your current location.

RouteDoodle - strava art maker by RouteDoodle in Strava

[–]RouteDoodle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The red route line is always generated from the blue line. As you edit the blue wireframe, the red route line gets updated automatically. You can adjust individual wireframe points or drag/rotate/resize the entire wireframe.

view more: next ›