Apr 16 2006

Ride Across California Map Geeking

Published by Administrator at 1:18 pm under Biking, Declan, Erin, Family, Fun, Mapping

If you’re new to this site, I’m a map geek. Combining this sickness with next week’s RAC, below are some views of way too much time spent in Google Earth.

If you are interested in seeing the source files and playing with the maps yourself, download the free Google Earth here, then go to this directory and download the .kmz files for each day, or the whole ride.

Here’s an overview of the whole ride. Each color is a different day:

Here are the individual days:

Day 1:

Day 2:

Day 3:

Day 4:

Day 5:

Day 6:

Day 7:

2 Responses to “Ride Across California Map Geeking”

  1. # Brad Fultson 17 Apr 2006 at 9:25 am

    That’s awesome. Hooray for cartophilia!

  2. # San Diego Blog ยป Blog Archive » Ride Across California Map Geekingon 25 Apr 2006 at 6:44 pm

    [...] Here’s a link to an entry in my blog about a recent Ride Across California that my daughter’s 5th grade class performed. There are a lot of Google Earth maps detailing the ride from Yuma to San Diego. [...]

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