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Show HN: Making a bike route of every road in Atlanta
- ktpsns 9y agoDid I understood it correclty that nobody drove this 4300 miles but instead it's just a proposal? I'm somewhat disappointed ;-)
- durkie 9y agoNot yet! I just made the route in December
- cullenking 9y agoHey durkie, it was pretty cool to open the link and see the route was entered into our site :) I appreciated the photos, hopefully I see a logged ride uploaded for this one day!
- durkie 9y agoThanks! Mind if I send you a few suggestions/feature requests? Doing these weird routes has brought up some small things...
- cullenking 9y agoAbsolutely - cullen@ridewithgps.com. Perfect timing, we are planning route planner and route show page improvements right now.
- symmitchry 9y agoI wrote a Chinese-Postman solver, if anyone is interested: https://github.com/supermitch/Chinese-Postman https://github.com/supermitch/Chinese-Postman It "absolutely" solve the network, so at the moment couldn't solve a network even remotely that big, but it's a fun little project.
- bbischof 9y agoSorry for the self-promotion but my recent related project: http://bbischof.com/articles/the-route-to-the-top-100/ http://bbischof.com/articles/the-route-to-the-top-100/
- symmitchry 9y agoThe obvious question is when are you going to embark on your journey?
- durkie 9y agoHey Brian! It's all good...graphing bikers unite!
- fiftyacorn 9y agoIt would have been interesting to apply the model to - https://pages.rapha.cc/feature/the-ride-of-a-thousand-cols https://pages.rapha.cc/feature/the-ride-of-a-thousand-cols
- scarface74 9y agoOnly tangentially related, but I've been living in different parts of the metro Atlanta area for over 20 years and had never heard of most of the areas of town that the article references. I guess people who were born here may be more familiar with those areas.
- durkie 9y agoMe too! There's all kinds of weird tiny neighborhoods around that I've never heard of until I started this
- charlescearl 9y agoFunny. My grandparents moved into one of those neighborhoods (Peoplestown) ~1920. I remember eating figs and pecans from the trees they planted and nurtured. It’s amazing when you walk those streets — abandoned train tracks, memorials to Black churches burned during the Jim Crow era, artwork long abandoned. For all it’s lack of design at least the city still has immense green space.
- phasetransition 9y agoMoved to ATL in 2002. There are a great number of intown neighborhoods, many with their own park/square. And many with their own cultural quirks. Since I have lived exclusively ITP, I would be fairly lost on the details of OTP neighborhoods.
- petroseskinder 9y ago> I guess people who were born here may be more familiar with those areas. Not really. Spent first 23 years of life there. The whole car culture killed my ability to serendipitously encounter many of these various areas.
- fiftyacorn 9y agoIt might be that he cycles and has more time to notice the areas? I know from my own cycling I'll often chose routes that Ive not been before just to see whats there?
- dionidium 9y agoThis is really great. I biked every street in the city of St. Louis, but I definitely didn't optimize. For anybody interested, there is a Strava group for people who have done this or who are doing this in their own cities: https://www.strava.com/clubs/ride-every-road https://www.strava.com/clubs/ride-every-road We also have a fledgling subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rideeveryroad/ https://www.reddit.com/r/rideeveryroad/
- jus_mike 9y agoReally cool. You should check out https://www.westsidefuturefund.org/ https://www.westsidefuturefund.org/ for and share your story at a meeting.
- durkie 9y agoOh cool! Thanks for the tip -- will do!
- matt_the_bass 9y ago@durkie, do you know of any organizations similar to concrete jungle in other areas? I'd love to participate in something similar. But I live in New England.