Hi Product Hunters!
My name is Christof, i am the Co-Founder & CEO of Bikemap. We are glad to share the freshly rebuilt Bikemap with you! Bikemap is the world's largest collection of cycle routes. We believe that many of you will find it useful. There is so much passion in our new products. Find and plan your perfect route with Bikemap all over the world. We made it easy for all devices.
Feel free to send us feedback or ask any questions :-)
@quadres as a huge fan of digital maps and how they can benefit us in our offline lives, I think this product is fantastic. I might have missed it but can you form meet ups with other riders in your area? I think the social aspect would provide a certain stickiness that would make this a staple app for bike riders across the world. Killer product.
@doyoulikesports Hi Hunter, thanks a lot for your feedback - great idea - we discussed the meetups also. As a first step into that we now start an ambassador program with our power users and local heroes - this will be the first step into this. Please drop me a line if you want to be part of it, looking forward...
Bikemap allows you to discover 🗻 cycle routes from fellow 🚴 cyclists from all over the world. This means you can also add your own favorite routes to share them with others. Personally impressive to me was seeing the volume of routes they already have in the database (2.8+ million).
Also quite useful are the city maps as each city has their own degree of 'friendliness' and it's always good to know how to get around when you want to explore and 📷 see things but still be on your bike.
@fdorfbauer Thanks, that's great to hear! :-) As Google Maps is rather built for general (car) use, we've implemented our own map based on OpenStreetMap to 1. stay up to date in terms of cartographical material and 2. provide more relevant information specifically for cyclists, like watermarks, better hill shading, etc.
I was dreaming about that kind of service! Thanks guys. Would be great to have maps for dirt jumping spots or north shores, usually that spots are really hard to find if you are not local.
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@frostaloha I could not agree more with you. It's a very common need. The team is doing an excellent job in scaling a global service in a local way. Bravi!
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@nick88msn@frostaloha This isn't exactly what you are looking for, but check out www.mtbproject.com They provide MTB trail maps including breakdowns of each riding area. The trails are rated by difficulty and there is a star system to rate enjoyment. They also include local club information which often includes info about local bike parks, rides, etc.
@jakekeys Thanks, Jake. I know about them but their coverage are good in US only. For example, they don't have any trails in Cyprus but there are a lot
@frostaloha@jakekeys Hi Andrew and Jake, we are now developing an ambassador-program with our heavy users and local heroes to find out what are the local needs and who can we provide information and/or routes there.
Hi there & thanks @__tosh for hunting! 🌟
I'm the product guy at Bikemap & I've dropped about thousands of hours into designing this thing, so if anyone has any feedback and/or questions, I'll be happy to answer them! 😎
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@tobias__seiler Hey Tobias! I notice that when I search for Pittsburgh it drops me into Harrisburg instead. Just FYI! Not sure if this is a wider bug.
@jfedor All routes have been uploaded from our community of over 500K enthusiastic cyclists! Plus, we aggregate official bike routes from the OpenCycleMap.
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@tobias__seiler awesome thanks. Can I export my Strava routes?
@jfedor Sure, we'll be happy if you do so 😄 Simply export your Strava tracks as GPX files and import them on Bikemap via "New Route" -> "Upload GPX/KML file".
@fdorfbauer Excellent question, thanks! Yep, considering the massive amount of routes, the community is certainly by far the best quality management 😄 We've developed an algorithm we call 'RouteRank', which boosts routes by their popularity and optimizes route planning (we're using the community's GPS data to find the most suitable ways for cyclists). Besides, we've got a content team that curates routes and regions with lots of inspiration and ideas for your next bike trip!
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People might be wondering about your business model ... At the moment, everything is free, afaik. What's the bizplan? ... Paid services? Premium memberships? Hardware or product sales? Maybe you guys could let people know.
@iboy Hi George, very good questions, thank you. We are working on premium services which come as an upgrade at the end of May. This will include Offline-Maps, Offline turn-by-turn-navigation, High-End-Print-Out-functions in web, advanced route planning functions, vector maps and many more. This services will come as upgrades because lots of users asked for it and are willing to pay for it because they save roaming costs or don't have access to the cellular network. We will deliver it on a global scale. Ads and Coops with regions who brand their surroundings will come and we have our own bikemap routing-algorithm which we licence to navigation services.
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