bike maps & trail maps & photographs…

| brunocm, on May 5th, 2009

… and maybe someday web analytics. Seth Holladay is a friend of mine, a colleague in web analytics, and ex-coworker at www.bluefly.com.  He’s also an avid biker and photographer, and his blog is all the better for it.  I went over there for web analytics and I can’t blame him for spending his time on something that’s more, er well, fun.

His site has links to his photos, some picked up by the AP (right Seth?) and other outlets, that are a voyage within themselves.  Maybe he’d lend me one of his photos to help me spruce up this place…

But beyond all of that one of the greatest resources for NYC area bicyclists is accessible from his personal blog but also at www.nycbikemaps.com.  Seth has personally mapped bike paths in the tri-state area that would keep you busy for a while,using his GPS, and made them accessible via google street view maps, google earth, categorized maps by borough,  Manhattan Waterway Greenway map, North and South County maps, I mean it’s really worth a visit.  Even if you’re not into biking (um, my tires are rotted and my frame is dusty, not to mention my gut) is a really nice example of a web site.  Seth has clearly given it some TLC, kudos.  And he doesn’t need me to blog about it, it’s already had over 250K visits per the site and just celebrated it’s 3rd anniversary.

To digest it all, you can go to his site map.

And did I mention he’s also a web analyst during the day?  That’s a different story, one like mine where somewhere along the way you step in that proverbial shit-storm known as web technology and analytics and you roll with the punches.  His story would be an interesting to one to share, one that starts on the web technology side (managing content and publishing at bluefly) and eventually spawns his nyc bike maps site…

It’s getting late.  If anyone is actually reading these posts you’ll know my interest in how one learn’s this ’stuff’ is not new.  Specifically, I’m talking about those who have fallen into web analytics roles (in it’s broadest sense) over the last 10 years who never went to school for it.  There is the technology side of things and the data side, there are the marketing and media aspects, SEO, SEM, ecommerce.  The breadth is huge.

But it’s getting late…