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The famous Delmar dividing line is quite visible in this view of St. Louis: http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#13/-90.28904/38.64610/gray/both http://labs.strava.

The famous Delmar dividing line is quite visible in this view of St. Louis: http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#13/-90.28904/38.64610/gray/both http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#13/-90.28904/38.64610/gray/b...

pgrote 13y ago
I noticed that, too. Grant's Trail is well represented. What is the source data? I've ridden through North St. Louis using Everytrail and my rides are public. Edit: It is from Strava itself. I didn't know they tracked routes. lol
- dionidium 13y ago
  I follow a guy on Strava who is in the process of riding every street in St. Louis City. He's been all over the Northside. But, as this map shows, it's not a popular place to go cycling.
  - jessaustin 13y ago
    ...not a popular place... There's a difference between "cycling" and "cycling while using Strava". I suspect that few people who cycle because they can't afford to fix their car, or they lost their license, or their wife commutes in the single family car, etc. belong to the latter group.
    - dionidium 13y ago
      You're right, of course!
dredmorbius 13y ago
For those not intimately familiar with St. Louis demographics and urban geography: http://unewsonline.com/2013/05/02/the-delmar-divide/ http://unewsonline.com/2013/05/02/the-delmar-divide/
jamesaguilar 13y ago
It's interesting to see that. My first hypothesis was probably wrong, but in the interests of open discussion, I thought, "Wait, do the poor people up north not bike or run?" I realized immediately that this was unlikely, just they don't own smartphones to track themselves, or some variant of skewed sampling. If they DON'T bike, that's sad, because biking is a money-printing fountain of youth (http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/06/13/bicycling-the-safest-form-of-transportation/ http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/06/13/bicycling-the-safe...).

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The famous Delmar dividing line is quite visible in this view of St. Louis: http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#13/-90.28904/38.64610/gray/both http://labs.strava.

by dionidium 13y ago

pgrote 13y ago
I noticed that, too. Grant's Trail is well represented. What is the source data? I've ridden through North St. Louis using Everytrail and my rides are public. Edit: It is from Strava itself. I didn't know they tracked routes. lol
- dionidium 13y ago
  I follow a guy on Strava who is in the process of riding every street in St. Louis City. He's been all over the Northside. But, as this map shows, it's not a popular place to go cycling.
  - jessaustin 13y ago
    ...not a popular place... There's a difference between "cycling" and "cycling while using Strava". I suspect that few people who cycle because they can't afford to fix their car, or they lost their license, or their wife commutes in the single family car, etc. belong to the latter group.
    - dionidium 13y ago
      You're right, of course!
dredmorbius 13y ago
For those not intimately familiar with St. Louis demographics and urban geography: http://unewsonline.com/2013/05/02/the-delmar-divide/ http://unewsonline.com/2013/05/02/the-delmar-divide/
jamesaguilar 13y ago
It's interesting to see that. My first hypothesis was probably wrong, but in the interests of open discussion, I thought, "Wait, do the poor people up north not bike or run?" I realized immediately that this was unlikely, just they don't own smartphones to track themselves, or some variant of skewed sampling. If they DON'T bike, that's sad, because biking is a money-printing fountain of youth (http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/06/13/bicycling-the-safest-form-of-transportation/ http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/06/13/bicycling-the-safe...).