If you’re a bicyclist who’s getting acquainted with Vancouver, you may already have found the city’s útil Cycling in Vancouver website, quais listas ciclovias em torno da cidade.

But what if you’re trying to figure out how far it is to cycle from Point A to Point B or encontrar a rota com o menor número de colinas?

Então confira UBC’s Metro Vancouver Cycling Route Planner.

The brainchild of Professor Michael Brauer in the university’s Escola de Saúde Ambiental, este projeto adapts Google Maps to deliver a variety of useful cycling information. Ligue o seu início e pontos finais, and the site will tell you the shortest route, o caminho com menor número de colinas, and the best way to avoid traffic pollution.

Graças a Translink’s Buzzer Blog for tipping us off to this cool tool.

Fotografia © Carolyn B. Heller