May. 3rd, 2024

solarbird: from display at PAX 2011 (ook)
The new Northshore Connector Bike Route Map printed out at full resolution (300dpi) sitting on a bamboo table printed tiled across two sheets of tabloid paper, with the overlay area glued down to make it one very large sheet. There's a 300mm/12" ruler across the top; the map is basically twice as long.

…but it printed it after nine or ten tries. It’s not the tiling; it’s that it doesn’t like this combination of sheet size and paper weight, I think. It wants to float above the platen and if you’re lucky you get blurriness and if you’re unlucky you get streaks of ink.

I settled for blurriness where it didn’t really matter.

This is the Release 1 of this map, btw. Assuming no last day updates, which I don’t think are coming. I think we’re done. It’s RC2 plus like one reduction in text intensity on one label, which I only did because it wasn’t consistent. No one in the world would notice except for me.

I just wanted to see what it looked like printed out full size, even if it meant tiling it across multiple sheets. There’s just something about physical maps, you know?

Really the only thing holding us up at all is where to host it. I want something where having multiple versions (and versions of versions) is easy and that made me think of Github? But a couple of people have suggested Wikimedia.

Any thoughts?

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solarbird: Brigitte Lindholm from Overwatch (brigitte)

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The map is uses material from King County GIS, the very outdated and somewhat inaccurate Kirkland Bike Map, satellite views via Google Maps, and important contributions from: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)
@[email protected] (Shoreline)
@[email protected] (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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