Omar L. Gallaga writes about technology culture for the Austin American-Statesman. He's worked for the American-Statesman since 1997 and edited Technopolis, the newspaper's personal tech section, and ¡ahora sí!, Austin's Spanish-language newspaper. He's currently a contributor to NPR's "All Tech Considered" segment, which airs Mondays on "All Things Considered." He's been a writer and performer with Austin's award-winning Latino Comedy Project, and is a contributing writer for Television Without Pity. He writes a comic strip, "Space Monkeys!" with his brother, Pablo, and lives in New Braunfels with his wife and three technologically savvy cats.
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Google will announce Wednesday morning that it is adding bike routes to its Google Maps service. They’ll be making the announcement at the National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C. Austin is one of about 150 cities (10 in Texas) that will be included in the launch.
Employees from Google will be demonstrating bike routes at South by Southwest Interactive, Friday though Monday in the expo hall in the Austin Convention Center. Google will also participate in a Mobile Social with Bikehugger.com starting 2 p.m. Saturday. Bikers will meet at Brush Square Park.
Below is an image of what the service will look like and a demonstration video (click on the image for a larger version):
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