Safer Cycling Alongside Mapzen

Mapzen's novel Bike Map tin sack help you lot navigate a safer way to cycle. The Bike Map colors roads together with cycle paths based on 3 dissimilar tiers of safety, allowing you lot to say at a glance which roads are the safest for cyclists.

The 3 tiers are:

• Green (safest) - off route cycle paths
• Orange (less safe) - on route cycle lanes
• Blue (least safe) - no cycle lanes

As good every bit grading the security of cycle routes the Bike Map likewise includes especial cycle icons to demo locations that are useful for cyclists. These include cycle parking, cycle rentals, cycle repair stations, cycle shops, drinking water, toilets, cafes, together with pubs.

The Bike Map uses information from Open Street Map. This way that the map industrial plant for anywhere inwards the world. It likewise way that if you lot don't recall the map is accurate plenty inwards your expanse you lot tin sack ameliorate the map past times contributing to Open Street Map.

If you lot desire to purpose the Bike Map inwards your ain maps you lot can! You simply involve to add together the Walkabout basemap way to a Tangram map together with plough on the cycle tier data. The Mapzen Blog has to a greater extent than details on how to add together the Bike Map to your ain maps. It likewise has to a greater extent than details on how the map was designed together with the other biking features that you lot tin sack respect on the Bike Map basemap.