Montgomery County inwards Maryland has created a stress frees route planner for cyclists. The Bikeway Stress Levels map shows you lot the most together with to the lowest degree stressful streets for cycling inwards the county. It tin flame likewise programme a route for you lot that avoids the most stressful roads.
To practice the map the Montgomery County Planning Department rated every unmarried route inwards the county based on how stressful it is for cyclists. The ratings are based on attributes similar "traffic speed, traffic volume, release of lanes, frequency of parking turnover, relaxation of intersection crossings together with other characteristics".
The Bikeway Stress Levels interactive map shows the stress rating for each route past times just coloring each route on the map past times its assigned stress rating. If you lot lead a route on the map you lot tin flame thought details virtually the road, such every bit the release 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 rattling task intensive. To assign a stress marker to every route inwards the county the Planning Department assessed each route on Google Maps Street View together with visited many of the roads inwards person.
H5N1 quicker but less accurate method for assigning a cycling 'stress' or 'safety' rating to roads is to role Open Street Map tags. Mapzen's Bike Map does precisely this to assistance you lot navigate the safest way to cycle. The Mapzen 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
If you lot desire to role the Bike Map inwards your ain maps you lot can! You just ask to add together the Walkabout basemap manner 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 role the Bike Map layer inwards 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 flame abide by on the Bike Map basemap.
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