{"id":2872,"date":"2010-03-10T14:08:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2010-03-10T14:08:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:08:34","slug":"rails-to-trails-bikes-to-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2010\/03\/10\/rails-to-trails-bikes-to-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Rails-to-Trails, Bikes to Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2010\/03\/googlemaps.bmp\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2873 img-fluid\" title=\"googlemaps\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2010\/03\/googlemaps.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"310\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Using routes and maps from the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy\u2019s (RTC) <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.traillink.com\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">trail finder site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Google Maps<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> now offers bicycle routes in its directions feature.\u00a0\u00a0Simply type in your address, where you want to go and select \u201cBicycling\u201d from the drop down menu. You should get at least two possible routes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Since 2000, RTC has gathered information on more than 1,600 rail-trails and connecting corridors and offered it free online. The goal of RTC, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., is to enhance the health of America\u2019s environment, transportation, economy, neighborhoods and people though this nationwide system of trails.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/191152\/bike_directions_added_to_google_maps.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Read more<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> in PC World or <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.traillink.com\/submit\/submittrail.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">submit a trail<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> to RTC using Google Maps.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using routes and maps from the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy\u2019s (RTC) trail finder site, Google Maps now offers bicycle routes in its directions feature.\u00a0\u00a0Simply type in your address, where you want to go and select \u201cBicycling\u201d from the drop down menu. You should get at least two possible routes. Since 2000, RTC has gathered information on more than 1,600 rail-trails and connecting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[578,7,579,580,480,581,582],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","tag-biking","tag-conservation","tag-google","tag-map","tag-outdoor-activity","tag-rails-to-trails","tag-trails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}