Good idea! I found the street address of my nearest post office and changed my answer to that. It's close enough, and if any bike thieves go there, they'll be very, very, confused.
On Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 10:05:08 PM UTC-7 iamkeith wrote: > This is great. Thanks for putting it together! > I have couple of suggestions, more for the participant pi-droppers than > for John: > > 1) Please be cautious and think twice about listing your actual home > address. Especially if you live somewhere like Denver or Oakland, where > bike theft is a major industry. Thieves could use this info to stake-out > and target your place. > > 2) it would be great to list the model(s) and size(s) of bikes you own. > So many times I wish I could have test-ridden something, but didn't know > how to find an example nearby. This could really help. > > > > > On Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 5:33:44 PM UTC-6 John Rinker wrote: > >> The map is growing nicely! Got riders in Oceania and Europe on the map! >> Still awaiting the first rider in Sri Lanka to pop up. >> >> If you've added yourself, to the map please note that you can edit your >> responses in case you...I don't know...get a new bike? Change your riding >> style? Misspelled your name? Move from Arizona to Babylonia? >> >> To do this, simply click on the 'Riv Rider Registration' and you can >> choose to 'Edit your response.' >> >> Cheers, John >> >> On Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 12:59:58 PM UTC-8 John Rinker wrote: >> >>> The Map of Riv Riders is ready!* Thanks to Dave's example of the >>> 'Unicycle Community Map' I've put together a similar interactive map that >>> Riv Riders can now populate with your location. >>> >>> As mentioned, the purpose of this map is to help Riv riders find each >>> other, connect and plan rides. >>> >>> Here's a link to the site: >>> >>> Map of Rivendell Riders >>> <https://sites.google.com/view/mapofrivendellriders/home> >>> >>> There is a Google form registration that, once completed and manually >>> updated by me, will put a pin of your location on the map. >>> >>> You can 'drop' this pin in a couple of ways: >>> >>> 1. Provide your address >>> >>> 2. Provide a random address in your city or town >>> >>> 3. Provide map coordinates (latitude, longitude) >>> >>> Check it out and if it seems interesting to you then register and wait >>> for your pin to show up. >>> >>> Cheers, John >>> >>> *I'll call it a beta version because I just learned how to connect >>> Google forms, maps, and sites together. Seems to work well though. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/17dc567c-5cf9-476c-af55-c2137cf584bbn%40googlegroups.com.
