I was happy to find out about this project called OpencCycleMap today. It maps cycle tracks as well as other features such as places for parking your bike (key here). The maps are based on data from the OpenStreetMap project, which is an free and editable map of the whole world; kind of like wikipedia for maps
I was really surprised at how detailed the map for Sønderborg is and also surprised that it marks the location of public recycling bins. Do cyclists have a special need for this information?
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find an easy way to embed the map in this blog post other than resorting to using an iframe (which would require a word-press plugin such as embed-iframe). It’s a bit of a heavy-handed approach, especially when the embedded page is not optimized for viewing at 450x350 pixels (those boxes of links at the bottom really get in the way and it would probably be better if scroll-zooming were disabled).
Therefore, I switched to a screen-shot of the site. Click the image to go to the live map.
Here’s the blog for the OpenGeoData project.