Turn The Roads Around Your House Into A Motorsports Race Track!

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Simple rules of this thread, obtain Google Maps data of streets around your house. The rest is yours to choose. Just a heads up, warping shapes in photoshop works best.

Here's mine, I call it Westwood Speedway (After my street name) and it has four layouts. This is mainly an LM race track, with about a five miles total for the GP Layout.



Yellow: Norther Loop

Cyan/Blue: Short Circuit East

Green: Short Circuit South

Red: Short Circuit West

To the east you will see some very tight 90 degree corners, IRL it's a very tight S-Bend, and is very, very fun. Also just after the entrance of the East Layout to the north is an elevation change, where the street angles down 5 degrees. It slopes down like this for about a mile before it hits the S-bends. After the S-bends it goes up in a hill for a quarter of a mile, then it slightly slops upward until it hits the bump down up in the north. Sadly though, I can't show these elevation changes, but IRL it's about 600ft of elevation changes.

Now show me your city track! You can add as many layouts as you want, just make sure to color code them!
 
Sorry, but that's pretty much what this thread is. Except that one doesn't help potential internet stalkers locate you :sly:.

Not that I care about that, I live in manning avenue, Toronto. But some people are scared of that kind of thing.
 
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Sorry, but that's pretty much what this thread is. Except that one doesn't help potential internet stalkers locate you :sly:.

Not that I care about that, I live in manning avenue, Toronto. But some people are scared of that kind of thing.
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:scared: :lol: Don't worry, I located the marker so that a creeper can't find me, it also makes a good Starting Line Indicator!
 
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I got a pretty good set of roads that pass my place. Many of the are seriously undulating also because the city is in the mountains.
 
Here is a little, or actually big, track, a bit like monaco in the sense that it passes by the harbor.

 
How do you do that on Mapquest with the outline of roads?
 
I know Google Maps has a trip planner mode, where you can give it a Point A, and a Point B. Then after it draws the route, you can drag and drop points from the route to different locations to make it go wherever you want.
 
Hmm would be fun to do this but how do you take a picture and put the lines? Also I'm moving I think this weekend so I can use 2 different roads :D
 
Google "google pedometer".

Try your hand at designing a track and save when done. Post a link here. If you want to try more, you have to open in a new window as you can overwrite the first one.
 
What i did was make the track on gmaps pedometer, take a screenshot of it, upload it to my flickr account, and post it here.
 

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