January 2010 Release

Just in time for the new year, I've released an update to the site. I made some big changes for this release, but it won't seem like it if you aren't a software developer.

The biggest change is that I'm open sourcing the project. I'll write a complete blog post about this soon, but for the moment suffice it to say I'm putting all the source code under a GPL license. The map data, on the other hand, I'm keeping private. Well, semi-private (I guess). It wouldn't be very hard to take the JavaScript data files for each ride and reverse-engineer them, and I doubt there's anything I could do about it. Still, I'm not giving the data away, so you'll have to work at least a little bit if you want to steal it.

I've also gotten rid of the comments and conditions tabs. Nobody was using them, and I don't feel like maintaining that code, so now they're gone.

I fixed a quirk with elevations that could have made some of the profiles wrong. You'd really have to know what you were looking for to find it, but it was there. Basically, when I create a ride out of several different GPS tracks, it was possible for some of the segments to have different relative elevations than they should have. This resulted in weird jumps in the profile when going from segment to segment. I've normalized everything using USGS elevation data, so it should be about as good as I can make it now.

Last, but not least, I added a new ride. Paradise Canyon is an old favorite of mine, and I'm glad to have it up.

Enjoy!
Jay Farrimond