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  gcraigm

  3 years ago

  I’m thinking this plan is too long. EMMR might have to wait until longer days return in the spring.
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  Yermo

  3 years ago

  If you do the entire ride as a single route you can get the total mileage. This is a pretty long ride especially given how cold it will get in the evening.
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  gcraigm

  3 years ago

  Agree too long. Will shorten and consolidate to one route.  How short might depend on when buffaloand others want to get rolling. 
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  ryan647

  3 years ago

  I'm up for getting going anytime.  Probably the earlier the better given the how early the sun goes down.  I am probably missing something but I don't see which end of the ride is the start and which is the end.
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  gcraigm

  3 years ago

  ryan647your not missing anything. I have to adjust the ride plan. I’ll rendezvous with you guys at buffalo’s place. I’ll update the ride plan tonight. 
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  gcraigm

  3 years ago

  They say that editing starts with a scalpel and ends with a chain saw.... I cut out a big loop up to EMMR and back.  I saved the segments in another plan and we'll ride that on a day with longer daylight and higher temps.  Instead, I'll stitch together a few more segments from Road Curvature that are closer to home.
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  gcraigm

  3 years ago

  The plan is almost complete.  It is 170-190 miles long, depending on optional loop around Prettyboy reservoir.  Segments are still not connected into a single route, mostly because of the way I built the ride plan (see ride blog for details).  But I will turn them into one big route this afternoon.  Yermo is there an easy way to splice two routes together using the GUI? I see how to split one route into two, but I don't know how to do the opposite.  I can just hand edit GPX files if not.

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  Yermo

  3 years ago

  gcraigm, I'm sorry but with that version of the software, no. The new editor does but it's not quite ready for release. 
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  Yermo

  3 years ago

  This really does look like a good route.

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  gcraigm

  3 years ago

  I added some POIs that might have outdoor eating.  Time to stop tweaking because it’s making me hungry.  ;)  Anyway, its getting late and editing while falling asleep is NEVER a good idea. 

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  Yermo

  3 years ago

  gcraigm, the question will be if any of those establishments have outdoor seating.
  
  I will see you tomorrow morning. Thank you so much for putting this ride together.
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  Yermo

  3 years ago

  Oh, and that section of Sam's Creek is definitely unpaved, but it's not bad. It's just a relatively short section. I'm already committed to helping buffalo clean his radiator the next time so it's all good.
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  America.Rides.Maps

  3 years ago

  The Curvature Site looks interesting. I'm interested to see how it works out in practice. While it identifies curvy roads, you may come to find some are private, some simply exist as ghost roads - maps show them but they are not really there. 

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  Yermo

  3 years ago

  America.Rides.Maps, at some point I want to adopt the algorithm to give the roads we tag a similar curvature rating. I think it's a good idea and I like the algorithm he's come up with, but I agree with you. Algorithms are not a good way of finding good roads. I think they should be used as supplemental information to support human curated one.s