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Comment by verst

1 day ago

Can you please consider expanding it to include Seattle? Or better yet Puget Sound area? 1m DTM elevation data is available here. We have many amazing bike trails, but also plenty of hills that must be avoided.

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ncan3  6 hours ago

Check out Modemix (modemix.io)

It's available in Seattle

  • andalinmicphew  4 hours ago

    Modemix is solid. Same goal as bikehopper and lots of active dev. We (bikehopper devs) know the modemix dev. Good guy, solid app. I think the Modemix hill data isn’t as detailed as what we use for SF.

andalinmicphew  1 day ago

We’d like too! It’s an open source project that was never designed to scale beyond one regions (bay area, puget sound, NYC, etc…) our hope has always been been that folks in different regions would spin up their own copy. By keeping it regional the data and hardware requirements for running it are minimal. That said, we are working on a new routing engine that we hope can scale to support continent wide routing. Then we can manage running it for many metro’s. If you’re interested in self hosting for Seattle we are happy to help get it set up.

  • verst  1 day ago

    What are the system requirements for hosting it? I'm not sure I have the discretionary funds to host it for the general public - but it all depends on how heavy this is :)

    • andalinmicphew  1 day ago

      We run it on a single coolify box from someone’s house. 6 core, 32GB ddr4 memory box. The actual routing query are compute intensive but only momentarily. More cores and memory means higher concurrency but we’ve never had an issue with load in the Bay Area with a few hundred users a week. We used to run it on a k8s cluster but we cut it down to save on power and infrastructure management overhead.

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ikawe  6 hours ago

In the meantime, you can check out maps.earth, which has bike+transit directions for the puget sound area (also sfbay, los angeles, portland)

...though the elevation model I'm currently using is courser (~30m, from Mapzen skadi). This is a good reminder to fix that where available!

Hit me up if you want to use the iOS beta which has some nice transit features (already available on the web).