I got a question asking "why are the Seattle lines green" and the answer is "because that's the colour set they use on their map" but the real answer is "I need to include enough of their legend for it to make sense."
So now I have.
If you downloaded it before around 8:40pm Saturday May 11, you might grab the new copy if you want the Seattle legend included too.
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
I decided it was kind of rude to cut off discovery park so I widened the workspace to put it back on
and that also gave me the space to add back the west seattle bridge detail so I did that too
and a little cleanup why not
anyway it's 722x656mm or roughly 28.5"x26" now at intended print resolution (300 dpi because that's a standard here)
I really think and hope I'm done with this version, now that I know this thing has legs I'm kinda like "whelp now time to do it over again with proper tools" so that maintenance will be easier and alignment won't be such a bear and a half
So anybody know what the hell all that was? Like 50 big POWs some but not all of which lit up the sky? All the early ones pretty regularly spaced like on a BOOM-two-three beat then the last few in clusters?
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.
Hashtags are critical here, I strongly suggest following the #Seattle and #PNW hashtags at very least. I'm up in north King County ( #northshore represent ) but also tag with Seattle because that's basically what you've got at the moment. xD
(There are also Portland tags, they're what you'd expect.)
Also also, I have a few general getting-started posts that have been reasonably popular. They're all linked to from here and you might find some of them helpful:
OKAY. Stopping point on the Northshore Bike Map, connecting the latest Seattle and brand new Eastside map.
I've added everything I know and I've stumbled upon a bunch of things I didn't before. This has been educational.
I've also labelled a bunch of stuff, added replacement labels for certain attractions that had their labels obscured, and made a couple of corrections.
I'm not including the sidewalk/path hybrid along Ballinger because while sometimes it sure does feel like a path most of the time it's just "sidewalk."
DO YOU KNOW ROUTES I DON'T?
Tell me about them! But only if they're public. I've not included a couple of trails here because they're private.