Before we go too far down this path, we need to be clear: Google absolutely holds the right to define what appears in their store. We are not arguing with that right. This is entirely about explaining where we are and what our path looks like moving forward.

The Bike Law Pocket Guide

We love the product, and the project itself is something that we believe is desperately needed for the cycling community across this entire country. So few cyclists understand the laws of where they live and how they ride, even fewer drivers do. Many law enforcement officers are equally unaware. Making matters worse, these laws are changing faster right now than they have in over 30 years.

This week, we spent a good bit of time in research and cleanup mode. During our publishing process with Google, it was identified that a few of the citation url’s did not meet their Misleading Information standards ( linked to a non-government website ). As a result, they (remain) unwilling to publish the application even for closed testing. We have, in turn taken the time to audit every statute in every state to clean up some gaps in the links. We fear that this will not be enough to meet their automated review standards. We continue to fight for this, but…

If you want the details, click through to the detail, and you will find the full results of auditing all 500+ citations.

The single largest challenge for projects like this is staying on track. When you create and give of your time without compensation, in this world, you have to balance that time and materials with the tasks the generate compensation. Meaning that too often a side project like this gets off track because the paying work takes priority.

This is part of the reason for the new 'Donation' and 'Support this Project' links you find here, particularly in support of our software offerings. We will be adding another to the home page in the coming days as a way to say, 'if you enjoy what we do, help support us'. Why do we need that? something you may not have noticed is that we have chosen to not advertise here. No trackers. No advertising. Just content.

Another milestone reached this weekend, we now have the Windows and Android versions of the Bike Law Pocket Guide up and running. Now we get to work through those app store options, meaning Microsoft, Google and Amazon each for the various versions. This work is the culmination of our 'Phase 1' work on this project. Enough to get it assembled and pushed out the door to make it available to as many people as possible.

We are working on some major updates to the website over the course of the next 24 hours. As a result, we expect the site to be up and down quite a bit during that time.