収束ゾーンでのライフ: Life in the Convergence Zone

I went out to Woodinville Bike Shop a couple of days ago to talk about the Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map, and as with most bike shops, they were pretty into it, telling me I could sell these things as posters.

(As much as I’d at this point frankly kind of like that, given the monetary situation, there are so very very many rights issues to clear up that I’m definitely not into trying. That said, I do have a Patreon if anyone is into that sort of thing.)

Anyway, they gave me some useful feedback about unincorporated King County, and pointed me at a few tools. The result is that I have added a new element to the legend, in that I am now carrying forward Seattle’s green-dash “unmarked street, no bike facilities, but commonly used by bicyclists” line. This is particularly important in said unincorporated areas, but not just – it makes a few of the island-like bike lane clusters make more sense in more densely-populated areas in Shoreline, just for example.

I also filled in some actual bike infrastructure I’d missed, again, mostly in unincorporated King and northern Redmond. Some is generally useful; mostly of it involves rough trails / dirt-bike fun, but they are commonly used, so there’s an audience.

Here’s where you can grab the latest experimental map – it’s vector version 1.1, dataset version 1.1, experimental release only. That’s a compressed (jpeg) version, but it’s not bad. I didn’t crank it down.

If you do look at it, you’ll see that the dotted green draws much less attention than the reds. That is absolutely by design. Not actually having any intentional bike support, those routes are … problematic, particularly for beginners. But I did want them on there if you went looking more closely.

As with all test releases, feedback is actively desired.

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What I hope is the FINAL major update for the Megamap:

I decided it was kind of rude to cut off discovery park so I widened the workspace to put it back on, and discovered that also gave me the space to add back the West Seattle bridge detail so I did that too, and a little cleanup because why not.

Anyway, it’s now wider, 722x656mm or roughly 28.5″x26″ now at intended print resolution of 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. Because it will be.

Here’s the project, and here’s the May 2024 Megamap directly. Enjoy!

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HAPPY FRIDAY IT’S BIKE MAP RELEASE DAY!

Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map Version 1 – May 2024 is basically the same a RC2 but with an improved legend, some credits, and the full resolution version is finally available! It’s 24″ wide if you have the full version.

Download from Github (ETA: that links to Release 1, but the latest release is always here.)

The purpose of this map is to connect the maintained City of Seattle Bike Map and the new to-be maintained 2 Line Bike Connector Eastside Map. So it’s all about connecting the connections to the other connections. I will be intending to maintain this one, hopefully with continued input from other people.

The map is uses material from King County GIS, the very outdated and somewhat inaccurate Kirkland Bike Map, satellite views via Google Maps, and important contributions from:

Erik H. on Facebook (Bothell)
@sip@social.ridetrans.it (Shoreline)
@MHowell@kolektiva.social (Tolt Pipeline Trail)

I’ve put it on Github for the moment because I already have an account there and it does versioning. I still need to figure out a license but it’ll be CC-credit or something like that. ^_^

Enjoy!

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This is a link to my new Greater Northshore bike connector map, built to link the long-maintained Seattle and new Eastside 2 Line Rail connector bike maps. Since we haven’t had one and nobody else is going to connect the dots, I decided I would.

The partially-covered white map at the bottom left is Seattle’s; and the lower-down equivalent on the bottom right is the very top of the 2 Line Rail Eastside map. Everything else is this map.

If printed at 300dpi actual, the map is 24″x10.4″ or 608x264mm in size. It should fold down nicely if you’re into that sort of thing.

NEW IN RC1:

• Steepness markings, measured using Google Maps data and trigonometry, with the single- and double-chevron steepness indicators pointing uphill and scaled as per the 2 Line Eastside map.
• A couple of very small corrections

What’s not listed: trails on private property and some completely isolated islands of quasi-bike-lanes that go nowhere.

Corrections desired.

Finally, thanks to the other contributors to this map:

• Erik H on Facebook (Bothell additions)
• @sip@social.ridetrans.it (Shoreline additions)

#BikeTooter #BikeMap #maps #Shoreline #LakeForestPark #Kenmore #Bothell #Woodinville

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