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"
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 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.
Kirkland's official map - five years out of date - not only fails to show bike lanes that do exist, it shows multiple bike lanes as extant that do not in fact exist. (Or if they do exist, they're invisible on Google Maps, both overhead and streetview.)
When @annathepiper and I went out biking today I stopped to take a picture of the new lights they put in on the small street crossing that's part of the Burke-Gilman to Lake Washington Loop connector in Kenmore. (A former small "missing link," no longer missing. The bike lanes are separated with distance striping and road turtles. Imperfect but much better than what was there before, which was nothing.)
Discovery Land Company (DLC) plans to create a private resort for the mega-rich on over 8000 acres of land at #TaymouthCastle, #Kenmore, #GlenLyon and areas around Loch Tay. They threaten to destroy natural habitats & cultural heritage along with land access rights for the people of Scotland.
DLC sales brochure claims Scotland is “an untouched playground”
Pease help protect #LochTay from this corporate #colonialist attack.
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
A couple of photos I took yesterday down at Log Boom Park. I don't know if it was mist, fog, or smoke on the other side of the lake, but it was very picturesque. #Kenmore#LogBoomPark#Photo#nature#sky#LakeWashington
Great photo walk through the forest at Saint Edwards Park organized by Kenmore Canera and led by Dan Hawk (who I’ve corresponded with for years and finally met in person for the first time!).