Comments on: Flashback Friday: Münster – Germany does Cycling too https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2023/05/26/flashback-friday-munster-germany-does-cycling-too/ Regular people riding bicycles Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:45:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jim Pickles https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2023/05/26/flashback-friday-munster-germany-does-cycling-too/#comment-146325 Tue, 30 May 2023 21:43:36 +0000 https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/?p=34249#comment-146325 Thank you for a relevant post on a city similar in size to Christchurch. To have a closer look I checked Google Maps which isn’t usually very good on street view in Germany. It turns out that in Munster most of the street view was taken by a cyclist riding the bike tracks – https://goo.gl/maps/MNzW9B4GXjzR2apB8.

Anybody got a 360 camera and a lot of energy? Google makes it as easy as they can to publish your own street view – https://www.google.com/streetview/contribute/. The extra visual information online could encourage more cycling. Visual info on Google Maps certainly gets used a lot as I found out after uploading some fairly ordinary photos about 18 months ago which will pass a million views probably this week.

I notice that the cycling info for Christchurch on Google Maps is now a lot more up to date than it was. Whether that’s anything to do with me contacting them after my last comment and your reply about a year ago or just a coincidence is anybody’s guess.

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