About Us

Our Vision

BiciMapas was born in 2006 with the idea of sharing mountain bike routes in México. A lot has changed since then and we keep on looking for ways to help you enjoy mountain biking.

We remain Faithful to the slogan in our logo Explore, Discover, Share (Explora, Descubre, Comparte) but now using the current GPS Bike computers technology, from the simple normal ride data, passing through a reliable navigation guide to a virtual trainer to help you improve.

 

Our Origin

1992

Started riding mountain Bikes. To find routes we used paper topo maps and compass

1994

I got my first GPS, a Magellan 2000 with very basic functions compared with what is available today. Using coordinates, we plotted our location on our paper topo maps.

1999

Started training coursed on maps, compass and GPS use.

2000

The first GPS devices with track creation show in the market, we get one.

2002

The BiciMapas web page is published with images of mountain bike routes and reference points  plotted over digital topo maps.

GPS technology starts to bloom

Tracks and waypoints are published in Oziexplorer format, the only program that would read data from the 3 major GPS brands at the time

2004

We started developing GPS.

2006

Our first auto routing GPS map for México was published.

2009

The mainstream GPS brands adopt the GPX file format that allows and facilitates sharing data between brands

2014

The GPX file format usage expands as well as new technologies to share the files.

All our routes are converted to GPX file format and launched our map server. We stopped using the digital topo maps.

2019

Started using GPS Bike computers instead of our trustful and reliable handheld units.

The fitness watches  rule the market

2022

Full re-design to align with current trends.

 

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