Okay! New map! The attachment is the first representation of dataset 1.1, using a lot of dotted green lines (as per the Seattle map legend) to show non-bike-signed routes commonly used by people biking.
(It's not full resolution because Mastodon shrinks it.)
It also includes a couple of actual bike-supporting routes I missed in dataset 1.0, and a lot more dirt/loose gravel trails, particularly in unincorporated King County and on the northern Eastside. But there's bits of adds everywhere.
The dotted green is experimental. Feedback is definitely requested.
Full resolution is at Github, select the map labelled "EXPERIMENTAL":
One thing working with the version 1.1 dataset is telling me is that if there are some pretty obvious-seeming ways that an un-notated map would tell you to go... but the heat data says nobody does that.
And that's the value of including these green dashed lines, because ... that lack of heat data says there's a reason not go do there.
That's where the bike lanes stop and everybody gets RIGHT the fuck off. People going to Woodinville divert out of their way over to Sammamish River and people going to Tolt Pipeline divert towards 112th via 156th, despite both of those being longer routes.
And I don't know the reason. I can make some pretty good guesses, but they're guesses.
But I don't need to; the heat map tells me what's up.
Has anyone here used the Avondale Road barely-marked "bike lanes" from around the Power Line Trail up to NE 132nd? Because on Google Maps they lack things like "this is a bike lane" markers except at the very, very end. Right now I've marked them as dual sharerows because of how bad they look to me. But are they secretly okay in person?
Thinking of adapting Seattle map's "faint green dashes" for "unmarked but regularly used by bicycle riders." It'll mostly be useful in unincorporated King County areas of the map.
I've used it here on Bear Creek, NE 132nd, NE 133rd, as a test.
Basically I want them to be much less visible, but still findable, much like the Seattle map does. And continuing their legend on this strikes me as better than making up something else completely different.
anyway the big reason i went to woodinville today was to take the northshore map to woodinville bike
and they were the first people to have more data for me, though they mostly told me how to find it rather than giving it to me. it's all up in Hollywood Hills and a lot of it is off-road, so not really destination focused. But some of it, apparently, is paved and connected to other stuff, so of some interest.
I got a question asking "why are the Seattle lines green" and the answer is "because that's the colour set they use on their map" but the real answer is "I need to include enough of their legend for it to make sense."
So now I have.
If you downloaded it before around 8:40pm Saturday May 11, you might grab the new copy if you want the Seattle legend included too.
Well I didn't get any corrections (but found a small one of my own) so the re-implementation of the Greater Northshore Connector Bike Map - now with slightly more map height, contrast, and more easily seen lines - has dropped. Enjoy!
Or if you don't mind .jpg and a little chopped off the bottom I guess you could just grab the preview here, it's at full resolution, just compressed a little and some of the bottom removed to fit.
and also because despite that i biked to seattle electric bikes in bothell and #bothell ski and bike in #kenmore and told them about my maps and showed them small versions and once they finally accepted that i really wasn't trying to sell them anything they were really into it
like me they are sick of having no king county bike map and here i walk in with half of one
seattle electric bikes in bothell was even "we would pay you for these" but i know i can't break even doing that so said "just go to fedex"
all that enthusiasm might vanish now that i'm out of their shops but it was pretty strong when I was there - seattle electric bikes was even talking about making a version with more tourist stuff on it an i was like "it's creative commons feel free"
tomorrow i'm gonna hit up the bike shop in lake forest park, gotta get all of northshore
Whelp, here's a second proofing release of the vector-graphics based map re-implementation.It's substantially finished now I think? I made a couple of very small path corrections since the last proofing release and this one has text copy and icons and a legend.
The new vector graphics version is attached. Note it does NOT yet have icons or text or even a legend. Note also the "fuzzy line" to indicate difficult or marginal trails has been changed to a "pattern line" which I think is more legible at more sizes - particularly when printed when the difference is pretty stark.
I think the screen preview shows the problems with the current version's line thickness and spacing inconsistency; 15th Ave NE near Hamlin Park in Shoreline is a good example. I think in the lower image at the same resolution, the separate lines are much more easily made out.
I'm also thinking this new line type for challenging trails - pattern rather than fuzzy - works better at very small sizes. But I'll take opinions on that for sure.
I patched it. Using prints from my less good printer which is why the water colour is different. But via scissors I was able to make the different colour mostly mean salt water vs. fresh so that’s something?
things I need to do differently on Greater Northshore: my double line separation needs to be more consistent. they get too close in places and that’s bad.
also I need a better tool but I don’t know what. something like illustrator that preserves objects. but not adobe shit because yikes money.
I decided it was kind of rude to cut off discovery park so I widened the workspace to put it back on
and that also gave me the space to add back the west seattle bridge detail so I did that too
and a little cleanup why not
anyway it's 722x656mm or roughly 28.5"x26" now at intended print resolution (300 dpi because that's a standard here)
I really think and hope I'm done with this version, now that I know this thing has legs I'm kinda like "whelp now time to do it over again with proper tools" so that maintenance will be easier and alignment won't be such a bear and a half