On a proposal for mapping the Hamilton cycle paths

Today, I gave The Hamilton City Council an email. It read:

Hi!

I just noticed GoogleMaps had started beta testing a cycling layer for their map routes. I was wondering if there were any plans for the HCC to help out, similarly to what they've done in Auckland. 

http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=48040

http://caa.org.nz/auckland-transport/google-cycle-maps-are-in-auckland-but-havent-fully-arrived/

Thank you,

- David Jackson

And I got this back slightly about an hour ago.

Good Afternoon David

Thanks for your email regarding Google Maps and cycling paths.  I referred this to our Sustainable Travel Team Leader and she has come back with the following answer in regards to this:

We are keen to see the result programme working, and once the issues have been ironed out, we would like to investigate rolling this out to Hamilton.  At this stage we have no plans to be involved in the trial as we don’t have the resourcing to do it.

If you require any further information in regards to this request please let me know.

Thanks

Michelle Kerbers

Understandable, but really, it doesn't seem like it'd be that hard to. So I just emailed back asking if there was somewhere online where I could find a map of the cycle lanes.

If there's such a thing, I'm thinking of putting the links up on a website, and then directing people to this website here to start filling them in. It wouldn't be hard, and if we had people putting in something like half an hour a week, we'd get it done within a month. And then we could move on and do something else, like fill in all the schools or all the parks.

Because if the council won't do it now, why can't we?