mapping biking routes to downtown tacoma
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Presentation for WAURISA 2009 in Bellevue, WATRANSCRIPT
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Mapping Biking Routes
to Downtown Tacoma
Michael Stoddard
City of Tacoma
WAURISA 2009
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Bike to Work Week (May 11 – 15)
Part of National Bike Month
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How can we encourage people
who work in downtown Tacoma
to bike to work?
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A map can answer
important questions:
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Where are the safest routes
(to downtown)?
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Where are the easy to
moderately difficult routes
(to downtown)?
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Intended audience:
beginners
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Not experienced bicyclists
Might have safety concerns
Not in top shape
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Existing maps ...
Do they answer our questions?
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Completed Trails
Completed Bike Lanes
Planned Trails
Planned Bike Lanes
Planned Connections
Streets
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Completed Trails
Completed Bike Lanes
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Completed Trails
Completed Bike Lanes
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Completed Trails
Completed Bike Lanes
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Completed Trails
Completed Bike Lanes
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These maps are great.
They illustrate:
Where you can bike
Where you can’t bike
Where you will be able to bike
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But how can I get downtown?
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So how can we map
safe routes that aren’t too hard?
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Ask the bicyclists
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The Tacoma Wheelmen's
Bicycle Club
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Tacoma Wheelmen’s Mission
Founded in 1888, TWBC serves "to promote and develop safe bicycling for recreation, health and alternate transportation."
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How can we capture the knowledge and experience of the Wheelmen?
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a. GPSb. Drawing on paper maps
…
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…
c.Bikely!
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Auto-follow
road
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Add
description
Export to
KML
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Process
1. Tacoma Wheelmen draw routes in bikely
2. Export routes to KML
3. Convert routes from KML to shapefile
…
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Process
…
4. Compose map with shapefiles, print
5. Meet with Wheelmen, mark up map
6. Edit map
7. Meet with Wheelmen, mark up map
8. Edit map
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4. Compose map with shapefiles, print
5. Meet with Wheelmen, mark up map
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existing bike
lanes
bike routes from
the Tacoma
Wheelmen
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Notes from Jaime Crawford’s cartography workshop
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When composing a map, you must know:
The purpose
The intended audience
The final format: size, medium
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We know the purpose and intended
audience of the Tacoma bike map.
But what’s the final format?
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Paper map of
to-be-determined size
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Then it changed to ...
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PDF map of
to-be-determined size
on a website to be named
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Then it changed to ...
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A bandana!
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How do I design a map
for a bandana?
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Cartography: labels, colors, features
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Cartography: labels, colors, features
Road names only (no suffixes, prefixes, ...)
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Cartography: labels, colors, features
Font: Arial Narrow
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Cartography: labels, colors, features
Color palette from Portland Bike Map
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Bike routes
Existing trails
Bike lanes/trails
Æü Park and rides
Parks
Cartography: labels, colors, features
Limit the features displayed on the map
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The final product
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The future
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Mobility Master Plan
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