Thanks for using Cyclopath!

We are sorry to say that we have shut down Cyclopath. We thank you for your support over the years! Cyclopath was not only a resource for the Twin Cities bicycling community, but it was a research platform that facilitated computer science education at the University of Minnesota, and contributed to our scientific understanding of geographical information systems and social computing.

Contact Us

grouplens-info@umn.edu

Cyclopath was operated by GroupLens Research at the University of Minnesota

Source Code

Cyclopath source code at GitHub

Publications

• Priedhorsky, R., Jordan, B. & Terveen, L. How a Personalized Geowiki Can Help Bicyclists Share Information More Effectively. in Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Wikis 93–98 (ACM, 2007). doi:10.1145/1296951.1296962
• Priedhorsky, R. & Terveen, L. The Computational Geowiki: What, Why, and How. in Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 267–276 (ACM, 2008). doi:10.1145/1460563.1460606
• Ludwig, M., Priedhorsky, R. & Terveen, L. Path Selection: A Novel Interaction Technique for Mapping Applications. in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2309–2318 (ACM, 2009). doi:10.1145/1518701.1519055
• Panciera, K., Priedhorsky, R., Erickson, T. & Terveen, L. Lurking? Cyclopaths?: A Quantitative Lifecycle Analysis of User Behavior in a Geowiki. in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 1917–1926 (ACM, 2010). doi:10.1145/1753326.1753615
• Priedhorsky, R., Masli, M. & Terveen, L. Eliciting and Focusing Geographic Volunteer Work. in Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 61–70 (ACM, 2010). doi:10.1145/1718918.1718931
• Torre, F., Sheppard, S. A., Priedhorsky, R. & Terveen, L. Bumpy, Caution with Merging: An Exploration of Tagging in a Geowiki. in Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work 155–164 (ACM, 2010). doi:10.1145/1880071.1880097
• Priedhorsky, R. The value of geographic Wikis. (University of Minnesota, 2010).
• Panciera, K., Masli, M. & Terveen, L. ‘How Should I Go from ___ to ___ Without Getting Killed?’: Motivation and Benefits in Open Collaboration. in Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration 183–192 (ACM, 2011). doi:10.1145/2038558.2038587
• Panciera, K. User Lifecycles in Cyclopath: A Survey of Users. in Proceedings of the 2011 iConference 741–742 (ACM, 2011). doi:10.1145/1940761.1940892
• Priedhorsky, R. & Terveen, L. Wiki Grows Up: Arbitrary Data Models, Access Control, and Beyond. in Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration 63–71 (ACM, 2011). doi:10.1145/2038558.2038570
• Masli, M. N., Priedhorsky, R. & Terveen, L. Task Specialization in Social Production Communities: The Case of Geographic Volunteer Work. in Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (2011).
• Masli, M. & Terveen, L. Evaluating Compliance-without-pressure Techniques for Increasing Participation in Online Communities. in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2915–2924 (ACM, 2012). doi:10.1145/2207676.2208698
• Torre, F., Pitchford, D., Brown, P. & Terveen, L. Matching GPS Traces to (Possibly) Incomplete Map Data: Bridging Map Building and Map Matching. in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 546–549 (ACM, 2012). doi:10.1145/2424321.2424411
• Torre, F., Liu, Y., Liu, Z. & Terveen, L. Local Knowledge Matters for Crowdsourcing Systems: Experience from Transferring an American Site to China. in Seventh International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (2013).
• Panciera, K., Masli, M. & Terveen, L. Cream of the crop: Elite contributors in an online community. in The International Symposium on Open Collaboration 1–10 (ACM Press, 2014). doi:10.1145/2641580.2641609

Thanks

Cyclopath Contributors

• Prof. Loren Terveen (managing professor)
• Reid Priedhorsky (founding project leader)
• Landon Bouma (lead developer)
• Phil Brown
• Carol Drysdale
• Jordan Focht
• Anthony Johnson
• Michael Ludwig
• Mikhil Masli
• James Nordgaard
• Katie Panciera
• David Pitchford
• Stephen Schacht
• Zach Schloss
• S. Andrew Sheppard
• Isaac Sparling
• Henry Stroud
• Fernando Torre
• Huang Xi

Financial support

The National Science Foundation, grants IIS 05-34692 and IIS 06-26930.

Geographic seed data provided by

• Minnesota Department of Transportation
• The Met Council
• United States Geological Survey, Sioux Falls, SD

Concept

The Cyclopath concept originated in discussions with Doug Shidell, Little Transport Press.

Geocoding

Geocoding (address to location translation) by Microsoft Virtual Earth group.

Alpha testers

We also thank our 200+ alpha testers, who helped test Cyclopath in its early stages of development. We appreciate particularly the diligent efforts of:

• Hokan
• James Nordgaard
• "Solarnow"
• Mark Agre
• Michael Berg
• Scot Gore
• Jeff Hernes

The Cyclopath community

Last but not least, Cyclopath worked only because of the attention and care of its user community -- that means you.