Cycle Atlas

CycleAtlas is a cycling diary based on a custom road atlas. It can be used to store or to plan new rides. Functions includes generation of planimetry, profiles, and route time tables of rides. A map editor is included, in order to create a custom road map.

The program is composed of two separated environments: the rides archive and the map editor.

The rides archive is the main environment. For every ride, it shows the main data (name, date, distance, time spent, average speed ..), the planimetry (route map), the route profile and the time table. Finally, you can see some cumulative data referring to all the rides in the archive, as the total distance and the average speed.

The map editor lets you make some custom maps, formed by nodes (towns, crossroads,..) and roads. For every road, you can specify the altimetry and the partial distances between nodes. In order to facilitate the task of the construction of the map, you can use a digitalized image taken from a road atlas or a geographic map and use it as a background in order to copy ("to trace") the roads.

You can insert a ride route by selecting in the map the main nodes. The program automatically finds the best path (based on the expected time) between the last selected nodes. For this computation, the cyclist average speeds ( at the various road slope) are used. These average speeds are also used for the time table, that shows the ride route locality, the progressive distance and the expected passing time.

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