Well I didn't get any corrections (but found a small one of my own) so the re-implementation of the Greater Northshore Connector Bike Map - now with slightly more map height, contrast, and more easily seen lines - has dropped. Enjoy!
Or if you don't mind .jpg and a little chopped off the bottom I guess you could just grab the preview here, it's at full resolution, just compressed a little and some of the bottom removed to fit.
and also because despite that i biked to seattle electric bikes in bothell and #bothell ski and bike in #kenmore and told them about my maps and showed them small versions and once they finally accepted that i really wasn't trying to sell them anything they were really into it
like me they are sick of having no king county bike map and here i walk in with half of one
seattle electric bikes in bothell was even "we would pay you for these" but i know i can't break even doing that so said "just go to fedex"
all that enthusiasm might vanish now that i'm out of their shops but it was pretty strong when I was there - seattle electric bikes was even talking about making a version with more tourist stuff on it an i was like "it's creative commons feel free"
tomorrow i'm gonna hit up the bike shop in lake forest park, gotta get all of northshore
Here, have the quickly-made MEGAMAP 1, a combination of the new Greater Northshore Connector Bike Map, most of the City of Seattle 2023 Bike Map, and the April 2024 2 Line Connector Eastside Bike Map.
It is NOT SMALL. Printed at native 300dpi, it's right about 26" square, or 660mm square.
Release 1 of the Greater Northshore Bike Map is NOW! Full res version is downloadable, it's like 600mm/24" wide printed at 300dpi and connects the Seattle and 2 Line Connector Eastside bike maps.
RELEASE CANDIDATE 2 of the Greater #Northshore Bike Connector Map, built to link the Seattle and 2 Line Eastside Rail maps. Since we haven’t had one and nobody else is going to connect the dots, I decided I would.
Printed at 300dpi, the map is 24″x10.4″ or 608x264mm.
NEW IN RC2:
Added note "very difficult" to part of Tolt Pipeline Trail.
Added steepness indicators on Goat Trail Road/NE 178th.
Added steepness indicator on short path from Burke-Gilman to 61st Ave NE.
RELEASE CANDIDATE 1 of the Greater #Northshore Bike Connector Map, built to link the Seattle and 2 Line Eastside Rail maps. Since we haven’t had one and nobody else is going to connect the dots, I decided I would.
Printed at 300dpi, the map is 24″x10.4″ or 608x264mm.
NEW IN RC1:
Steepness markings, measured using Google Maps and trigonometry, with single- and double-chevron indicators pointing uphill and scaled as per the 2 Line map.
A couple of small corrections
NOT listed: trails on private property, short isolated bike lane islands that go nowhere.
Cory Doctorow at Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, Mon 2/26 at 7pm
The Bezzle: A Martin Hench Novel
A seething rebuke of the privatized prison system that delves deeply into the arcane and baroque financial chicanery involved in the 2008 financial crash, The Bezzle is a sizzling follow-up to Red Team Blues.
Cory Doctorow returns to Third Place Books for the next book in his Martin Hench series, a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s prisons are traded like stock shares. This event is free and open to the public.
"Cory Doctorow is one of our most important science fiction authors."
—Kim Stanley Robinson
"Cory Doctorow doesn't just write about the future—I think he lives there!"
—Kelly Link
Seeking (audio-)book recommendations! Instead of letting a bot tell me what I might like, I'll try crowdsourcing it.
A few recent listens that I fucking loved:
Hopeland by Ian McDonald.
Walkaway and Red Team Blues by Doctorow.
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.
I realize that "techno thriller" is a genre that I particularly like.
Suggestions please!
Note that if I'm going to sit down with a book, I've got a long list of nonfiction. I need audio fiction for road trips and bike rides.
Giant Sturgeon washes up on Kenmore beach, Lake Washington. 8 feet long and weighed approximately 300 to 400 pounds. It was estimated to be 60 to 80 years old.
if you bike in #LakeForestPark and use Goat Trail Road (178th) like a lot of people, I called the city and got them to fix the Invisible Murder Pothole, the one you can’t see going downhill but which would absolutely murder you.
they fixed it really quickly too after I told them I was there for it taking down an older biker. like, a couple of days. (he was okay but it was a nasty fall)
anyway there’s still a couple of other very unpleasant spots but they’re all ones you can actually see to avoid. i need to take photos and report them too tho, since it turns out reporting them actually works sometimes
Talking of #northshore, might as well mention that they're about done with the little three-block missing bike link between Burke-Gilman and the West Sammamish River Bridge bike path, which heads south into #Arrowhead towards #Kirkland - pavement was down last time I was there and at least some of the signage. No paint yet, but it's supposed to be done pretty soon.