Bike ride mapper

Google Maps just added a couple of new features to their interface, the most impressive being the ability to dynamically alter a route to include waypoints via drag-n-drop. Way cool.

But in reading about this, I came across a link to a third-party Google Maps application called Map My Ride, which lets you plot and save bike rides (or, really any route.. it's just tailored toward bike rides). This is typically done manually, but if you got one of them fancy GPS things, you can import recorded route data. In addition to the obvious distance calculation, the application can display a pretty dang accurate (by my estimation) view of elevation changes along the way, plus it has a calculator for calories consumed. To top all this off, you can also search for routes in a given area that other users have saved and marked "public". Super sweet.

No word yet whether it works on iPhone, though.