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First off, wow! Thanks for taking the time to provide us with so many good points; it's hard to see many of the things you mention from a fresh perspective, a
by cullenking 17y ago
First off, wow! Thanks for taking the time to provide us with so many good points; it's hard to see many of the things you mention from a fresh perspective, as I have been staring at this project for a long while.
There is no option to hide your location, however it doesn't get more specific than the zip/city even if you used an actual home address to set the zip/city/etc. However, I agree it should be hidden and consider it done. Easy to add, I'll do so today. I have talked to a few people about adding a 'fuzz' factor to routes, so that the start/end doesn't touch your house. I am not sure how I want to implement this yet, so it hasn't been done. but, it is being thought about!
Soon we will have photo geotagging on routes. Should be an easy enough task, it's just been on the todo while we make what we have more solid. I like the Flickr integration and will investigate it.
I will clarify the email address hiding stuff, thanks for pointing out the confusion.
I haven't investigated how to assign timezone based on zip/city, but I would be surprised if Google doesn't provide that with geolocation information.
Thanks for reminding me about the weight problem. I will flag it as needing change, so your base weight is on your profile and gear weight on the bike. Additionally, I know people that want to track individual weight per ride, so I'll have to probably default to a riders last ride weight, profile weight or inputted weight when they log an activity.
Route planning currently does allow markers, they are called 'course points' (according to garmin), but that name is not too friendly. I'll massage that, but, you can currently add markers around the route it's just a kludgy UI. I am reworking that really soon, after I finish my week long list of bug fixes/improvements.
We have been working on multiple route display/comparison, including segment matching (same leg of even different trips), but it's very rough and not forward to the public. It will be cleaned up, released and expanded soon.
I agree the embed is ugly, it's just been so easy to forget it exists! It's on the list, highlighted, including adding more options for the person doing the embedding.
The product will always be free, but to a limited ability. I agree however, we have not expressed that very well. I'll sit down with Zack and Cam and come up with some explicit language that will help people with this.
We plan on adding events, most likely as a premium feature. I would love to have cyclists register and appear on the list of an event, with some way of showing it in their profile. We have been talking about this for a while, but haven't nailed anything down. It needs to (and will) be done before spring, when the riding season starts really taking off.
Thanks again for sharing our site around and generating the exposure. Traffic is already way up from both this post and your forum, so it is MUCH appreciated. I'll jump on that forum as well and get involved with the discussion. Additionally, I'll bug you later today when I have implemented some of your suggestions.