Biking to work
There's a mistake in today's column that I failed to correct before press time: Bicycling insurance man David Schapiro says the ride from his office in Hunt Valley to his home in Roland Park is 13 miles, not the eight miles mentioned in the column. "My odometer shows it as 13 miles," says Schapiro, who rides from Beaver Dam Road through old Lutherville to North Charles Street to make the trek home. I calculated the distance on MapQuest, and came up with eight miles. Of course, MapQuest is based on the most efficient route for a motor vehicle. Schapiro told me the distance was 13, but I forgot to make the correction before filing the column. The Son of the former Rose Popolo regrets the error.
Here are some web sites about biking to work:
Comments
Surely I'm not the only person who has been led astray by MapQuest. If I use it to plot a course to a friend's house, it will tell me to go a certain way, but what it considers a road is actually only a pedestrian footbridge. There are many other examples from our personal experience, so I would tend to trust Schapiro's odometer over the MapQuest calculation.
Posted by: Dahlink | July 6, 2008 10:37 AM