Cornell had an online rideboard that they shut down about a year ago. They suggested people move to the Facebook application ZimRide:
http://www.zimride.com/ -- Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn Reeves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sustainable Tompkins County listserv" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 5:17 PM Subject: [SustainableTompkins] Ride-Share Board > On Nov. 12, Lewis Durland asked: >>Is anyone going to the Greenbuild conference in Boston next week, >>and if so, do you have room to take another person (me)? I am >>hoping to leave sometime Tuesday 11/18 (around noon?) > In accordance with Murphy's Law, I, who also attended GreedBuild, > didn't read that post until today (=after the conference, for those > mathematically challenged). Lame excuses include that SustTomp has > far too many posts per week and that those posts are annoying to read > because of iterative requoting (Help me Simon Wan Kenobi, you're our > only hope). Also, our requirements may not have matched. But it got > me thinking: > Does Tompkins County have a good ride-share system, some kind of > bulletin board? I remember the old board in Willard Straight Hall (or > was it RPU?) from 20 years ago. Anything like that still around? > I have used MassRides http://commute.com before, but it was not > well-suited to one-time rides, better for daily commutes, and built > for Massachusetts, sigh. I know everyone in Ithaca is getting tired > of me saying "Massachusetts has this, MA has that." ;-) > It would be rather easy (for some programmers) to use GoogleMaps' > interfaces to create an online application that allows one easily to > enter a two points and a wiggle-factor and compare those to someone > else's two points, using a database that keeps everyone's data. The > simple form would include: address of start; of destination; earliest > date-time willing to leave; latest date-time; amount of kilometers > off-track willing to go (option for driver). I could set up the > database and forms, but I am still something of a spring chicken with > GoogleMaps API and other GIS DBs. > At least I had a great time at GreenBuild, sorry for calling it > GreedBuild earlier. But seriously, there are too many posts; sure, > everything in the world can be related to our own sustainability, and > we are local, but that begs the question of what not to post. Uh-oh, > I hope ride-sharing qualifies...I will bite my tongue for at least > one week between posts as penitence. > -- > -Shawn Reeves > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://energyteachers.org _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
