Time veloprogulok

BikeMe, he also. bkme. designed to make life easier for the rider, giving users bashes on display and the ability to create their own. Now, you clearly demonstrate the younger generation, like little men on two wheels get from point A to point B, the difficulties encountered in its path, and where to get the courage to overcome them. I suspect that you will enjoy the lack of registration ( instead OpenID), and the default mapping service, whose role is performed courageously OpenStreetMap. Locations of military glory marked in two ways: either by manually drawing cueing / chips, or by downloading GPS- track. For lack of a navigator, was elected as the first option. It looks like. My main route. :.


However, to indicate the secondary parameters, such as the industrial area with dogs, sidewalk and road sections, I have not bothered to. But the time to talk with the developer of the service - Arkady Chumachenko, which, incidentally, was a man of our commitment to Free Software and Open Source, and also agreed to give a little impromptu interview.

Traditionally, the first question will concern yourself. Tell us about yourself, what you do, creativity is influenced Korney Chukovsky to your establishment in life? .
I myself am a programmer by trade, education - not quite, but it is also a computer. In college students dabbled in web sites, and then dabbled in game development in the. CREAT studios. And after Kriata wanted freedom to believe in themselves and went to the web freelance, often more like Downshifting. Sat on a bike in 12 years, which is apparently not affected Chukovsky and ' Bears went on a bicycle ', and Mercury, with his 'I like to ride my bicycle':).

bkme has a clear social orientation and explicitly created ' for himself and people '. When you have decided to implement his plan and the goals pursued in the design?.
It has long been thought to make something of their own, and not necessarily for the money. In the spring of a friend, an avid ' Katun ', described how nearly drove across town to a suitable pavement on the waterfront, and a little later I remembered that a friend showed the same ' secret ' route through the junction under the railway lines - and then had the idea to . Just for the night ( something I could not sleep ), made a prototype, I liked it, moved on. Although here the terms ' design ' and ' goal ' is not very applicable. I am the man himself is not very sociable get-together in a bicycle is not spinning, and collect great team to work on a project on pure enthusiasm I somehow do not feel like, so long as the project is just for fun.

Initially the service display the routes in the background of Google Maps. What is the reason for the transition and what OpenStreetMap OSM gives users the benefits?.
All corny - in OSM has maps of many cities that are not in Google / Yandex ( not necessarily small - Minsk and Krasnodar, for example), and maps of Moscow and St. Petersburg is much more relevant. I was surprised, but the fact - on Google Maps does not open with six months ago, interchanges, and OSM - please. More recent benchmarks I just do not remember:) Plus, the library. OpenLayers. able to switch between different providers of cards, including Google. Actually, I hooked up Google's maps and satellite photos, but do not fix it for them to move on the map.

How often have had to deal with the problems of a technical nature? .
The main problem was the fall of the database on June 1. Lost nearly 200 routes, almost immediately dropped sharply attendance. In general, it is unpleasant. If we take a pure development. I mostly do server-side programming, so much time and energy taken away javascript, especially the transition to the OpenLayers - it is very powerful and fancy. From the jump I can say that again soon organizational issues - posts about the service at. Thing of internet. and. Sites of the Day at the Rambler. Moreover, if the Rambler was interviewed, and I knew in advance about the post, then post in the ISH was a complete surprise - I saw her as ' logos ' in the Google Reader feed, and almost upset that someone else has used this icon, and only then noticed .

OpenID, OSM, Django - the project is literally built on open technologies. What do you think manages the selected ' cage ' with their duties? .
Tools would definitely did not change - Django has repeatedly shown himself to advantage on many web projects where I've been involved (take. bobrdobr. ru. - Prior to loading bkme if dorastet, then a very long time ). concept. also probably. Perhaps, more attention would be paid by every social tricks and simply demonstrate the route (a la. gpsies. com. But with bicycle bells and whistles ). While, on the other hand, have an idea to create a very cool automatic route, but you need a solid base of these same routes.

The present project, we can contemplate. What awaits the cyclists using the browser tomorrow, I mean in the near future?.
Have an idea to make a single location-based portal for cyclists ( and probably a little skaters:). From finding a ready route, convenient publication of, an organization pokatushek (yes, there are already. katushk. in. , But I have many times users have asked for this feature:)), a library of interesting points of the route ( attractions, shops and bicycle shop, biker-friendly establishments and just beautiful places to vacation ). It is possible - with the service by cyclists, motorists are, and what we are worse? . velo-gorod. ru. proposed to hold the game on orientation (similar to Running the City, is not as extensive, but quite often) - not sure that I have on it now enough gunpowder, but in the long term - and why not? .
In general, the service until just two months, and ideas have the sea - I hope that will appear regularly and implemented new.

On my own I want to wish the project the growth and prosperity. And readers offer more distractions from the computer and follow a healthy lifestyle, energetically spinning the pedals;-).