Stress Gratis Wheel Maps
Montgomery County inward Maryland has created a stress frees route planner for cyclists. The Bikeway Stress Levels map shows y'all the most together with to the lowest degree stressful streets for cycling inward the county. It tin flame too programme a route for y'all that avoids the most stressful roads.
To practise the map the Montgomery County Planning Department rated every unmarried route inward the county based on how stressful it is for cyclists. The ratings are based on attributes similar "traffic speed, traffic volume, divulge of lanes, frequency of parking turnover, remain of intersection crossings together with other characteristics".
The Bikeway Stress Levels interactive map shows the stress rating for each route yesteryear but coloring each route on the map yesteryear its assigned stress rating. If y'all direct a route on the map y'all tin flame thought details nearly the road, such equally the divulge of traffic lanes, the speed limit, whether in that place is on-street parking or whether in that place is a cycle lane.
Montgomery County's approach is real project intensive. To assign a stress score to every route inward the county the Planning Department assessed each route on Google Maps Street View together with visited many of the roads inward person.
H5N1 quicker but less accurate method for assigning a cycling 'stress' or 'safety' rating to roads is to purpose Open Street Map tags. Mapzen's Bike Map does precisely this to help y'all navigate the safest way to cycle. The Mapzen Bike Map colors roads together with cycle paths based on iii dissimilar tiers of safety, allowing y'all to nation at a glance which roads are the safest for cyclists.
The iii tiers are:
- Green (safest) - off route cycle paths
- Orange (less safe) - on route cycle lanes
- Blue (least safe) - no cycle lanes
If y'all desire to purpose the Bike Map inward your ain maps y'all can! You just involve to add together the Walkabout basemap mode 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 purpose the Bike Map layer inward your ain maps. It too has to a greater extent than details on how the map was designed together with the other biking features that y'all tin flame uncovering on the Bike Map basemap.
