Maps Release: Greater Northshore Bike Connector, MEGAMAP 1.6

Apr. 19th, 2025 09:19 am
solarbird: our bike hill girl standing back to the camera facing her bike, which spans the image (biking)

Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 1.6 – 18 April 2025 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 1.6.

Additions and changes since 1.5.1:

  • Large expansion north to Lynnwood City Centre and rail station across all of SW Snohomish County
  • Extension of Interurban Trail in Edmonds to 78th Place West reflecting new construction
  • Improved street labelling, mostly in SW Snohomish County
  • Route indicators at map edges describing past-map continuations to destinations such as UW and City of Snohomish
A screen-resolution preview of the newest megamap

All permalinks continue to work.

If you enjoy these maps and feel like throwing some change at the tip jar, here’s my patreon. Patreon supports get things like pre-sliced printables of the Greater Northshore, and also the completely-uncompressed MEGAMAP, not that the .jpg has much compression in it because it doesn’t. If you have an iPhone, please use the website interface and not the app, because Apple takes 30% if you use the app. I’ll keep doing this regardless, but you know. Thank you! ^_^

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Alpha test release: do you bike in Snohomish County?

Apr. 13th, 2025 11:43 am
solarbird: our bike hill girl standing back to the camera facing her bike, which spans the image (biking)

I’ve got an alpha of the Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map posted in a temporary location. [EDIT: There’s now a Beta. Use that instead!] It extends the map northward to Lynnwood City Centre, tho’ not all the way up to Alderwood Mall.

If you have any knowledge of southwestern Snohomish County biking, give it a look? I’ll get up to Mountlake Terrace to catch a train and I’ve biked the Interurban and North Creek trails pretty far up, but that’s it, and is nothing like on-the-ground knowledge.

The uploaded version had to be trimmed at the bottom a little to stay on 11×17 paper with one-quarter-inch margins. Here’s what the full thing looks like; I’m honestly a bit up in the air about what to do about this. Staying on a single row of tiled 11×17 strikes me as kind of important.

The alpha test map without the 1" bottom trim tiled and on a tabletop

(Just because I happen to have some 11×17.625″ paper for reasons doesn’t mean most people do, because ALMOST NOBODY DOES lol)

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Maps Release: Greater Northshore Bike Connector, MEGAMAP 1.5.1

Mar. 8th, 2025 09:15 am
solarbird: our bike hill girl standing back to the camera facing her bike, which spans the image (biking)

Greater Northshore Bike Connector Map 1.5.1 – 8 March 2025 – is now available on github, as is MEGAMAP 1.5.1.

Additions and changes since 1.5:

  • Additional labels in Lake Forest Park aiding navigation to Mountlake Terrace Light Rail Station
  • Final section opening of the Waterfront Bike Trail in Seattle (Opening Ceremony is today (March 8th) and there are events downtown, go enjoy if you can)
  • Clarified warning signs on mostly but not quite complete bike lanes on 15th Ave S. in Seattle
  • Honey Dew Creek Trail (paved section) and connection routes added in Newcastle/Renton
The MEGAMAP showing bike infrastructure from southwest Snohomish County down to Renton.
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All permalinks continue to work.

If you enjoy these maps and feel like throwing some change at the tip jar, here’s my patreon. Patreon supports get things like pre-sliced printables of the Greater Northshore, and also the completely-uncompressed MEGAMAP, not that the .jpg has much compression in it because it doesn’t. If you have an iPhone, please use the website interface and not the app, because Apple takes 30% if you use the app. I’ll keep doing this regardless, but you know. Thank you! ^_^

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northshore bike map release candidate 1

May. 1st, 2024 04:05 am
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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:

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