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Q1a. Where are you posting from today?
Q1b. Which cycling-related apps do you have installed on your phone?
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Same. I kept CoMaps but finally deleted OSMAND because it was just crazy and retina burning. I don't really understand, this is a solved problem. Look at Apple Maps, or even Mapquest. Then again I've always felt Google maps was crazy and confusing and never used it.
@billyjoebowers @ascentale @bikenite I haven't figured out how to look up an address. Copy/paste address in... It can't find it. Unclear to me what the system is. I'm a freaking software engineering person and I don't understand it, so I am suspecting it's built by someone from another culture, and it's like reverse-polish-notation, lol.
You're not going to believe this, but I think they simply can't look up an address at this point. I was shocked to find out, seems like that is kind of job 1 for a map program.
@ascentale @bikenite A1. Posting from Smyrna, GA as always. I think the only cycling related app I have isn't even really cycling related, but I use #OpenTracks (https://opentracksapp.com/) to record my rides without a ton of irritating extra features or bullshit cloud integrations. I guess my normal mapping software, @CoMaps also has cycling directions, so maybe that's at least tangentially cycling related.
@ascentale @bikenite A1a: SAME AS IT EVER WAS - but at least I'm on time from my little hideaway in North King County, Seattle, Cascadia.
A1b: None. NO WAIT THAT'S A LIE I have BikeLink, which you need to use the bike lockers at the light rail stations. That one's actually good and I specifically kill it when it's not in use holding a locker for me.
I _was_ gonna say that the closest I have is a screentop link to my own MEGAMAP (and I do have that too) but that's not an app, it's a web link. xD
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#BikeNite A1a. Ventura County, CA
A1b. I have CoMaps and OSMAnd, but I find their user interface cryptic and impossible to get directions with. 🤷 I don't know why, but I don't understand them.