Google Maps “bike there” finally arrives!

WOOHOO!

Back in October of last year, Google made the big announcement they’d be adding a feature to their Google Maps application for bike navigation (to add to their list of other alternative means of transportation like walking and transit). What I love about Google is they consistently back up their talk and today, they’ve come through and made available a GIANT database of bike route data and the new ability to punch in addresses into Google Maps and have it route you the best way on a bike!!

Been playing with it and it has some great data for Berkeley, San Francisco and Oakland and by the looks of things, has great data elsewhere too. This is big, really big. Go check it out