Pan & Zoom over Arlington Comfort Map

[ShawnoftheDread]

Android? Anything for us sheep?

[Tim Kelley]

That’s a fine looking map!

[sjclaeys]

@ShawnoftheDread 129964 wrote:

Android? Anything for us sheep?

Are you asking if androids dream of electric sheep?

[ShawnoftheDread]

@sjclaeys 129982 wrote:

Are you asking if androids dream of electric sheep?

Sure. I’m also admitting that I’m an idiot with an iPhone.

[sjclaeys]

@ShawnoftheDread 129997 wrote:

Sure. I’m also admitting that I’m an idiot with an iPhone.

Thought that you were making a clever reference to this:

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[dasgeh]

@chris_s 129962 wrote:

If there is interest, I could probably make this available as an Android App that wouldn’t require an internet connection also.

Could you make an app that would allow one change colors of the lines (i.e. make all the black lines not black)?

[chris_s]

@ShawnoftheDread 129997 wrote:

Sure. I’m also admitting that I’m an idiot with an iPhone.

The only real barriers to an iPhone version of the app are 1) I don’t own a Mac 2) I don’t have a $99/year apple developer subscription.

If someone wants to knock down those barriers, I’d be happy to publish.

[chris_s]

Hmmmm….given the lack of a regional bike map, part of me now wants to create my own Franken-map mashing all of the local bike maps together. I have DC’s, I have Alexandria’s, I have both of Arlington’s (I think I would probably use the “standard” Arlington map for consistency since the other jurisdictions don’t have a comfort map yet). Niether Fairfax nor Montgomery county make a PDF of their paper map available because they want you to use their electronic version, so I’d have to do multiple exports from their online version, but that’s do-able. Prince George’s doesn’t appear to have a Bike Map. The Virginia and Maryland State Bike Maps are a such a different scale I’m not sure how well I could match them up with the jurisdictional ones or how useful they would be.

Does anyone else think this would be useful?

[PotomacCyclist]

I don’t know if I would use the Fairfax map that much, but others would. If Fairfax is still using that cumbersome map from a couple years ago, yes, that can definitely be improved upon. I took a look at the Fairfax map a few times and found it barely usable. I vaguely remember having similar difficulties with the Montgomery County map.

Prince George’s only has older planning maps and single-trail maps.

http://www.pgplanning.org/About-Planning/Our_Divisions/Countywide_Planning/Transportation_Planning/Trail_Planning.htm

This is the only bike map I found on the PGC site. The 2009 planning document includes bike routes (trails, lanes, etc.) in existence at that time, plus planned bike routes. I don’t think this map will be that helpful because it’s so old. But it’s a start.

http://www.pgplanning.org/Assets/Planning/Programs+and+Projects/Transportation+Plans/Bike+Planning/Bikeways+Trails+Map.pdf

Note that they misspelled Amtrak as /Amtrack/. (The WWW existed back then. It would have taken someone a couple seconds to look that up.)

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WABA has a link to a MDOT-produced bike map for PGC but the link is dead: http://www.waba.org/resources/maps-and-documents/

[PotomacCyclist]

2012 Anacostia Tributary Trail System map:

http://www.pgparks.com/Assets/Parks+$!26+Recreation/PDF/Maps/Anacostia+Trail+Map+2012.pdf

and other maps for individual trails, from the menu on the left of this page:

http://www.pgparks.com/Your_Parks/Trails.htm

Some older maps linked on this page: https://www.bikemaryland.org/resources/riding/maps/

TrailLink maps in online format, not PDF (free registration required): http://www.traillink.com/stateactivity/md-bike-trails.aspx

[PotomacCyclist]

@sjclaeys 130000 wrote:

Thought that you were making a clever reference to this:

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He was referring to the techie Android-iPhone website cyber spats where fans of each system insult the other group. Sometimes Android users refer to iSheep or they call all iPhone users sheep.

http://gizmodo.com/5951243/the-apple-vs-android-fanboy-wars-in-one-gif

But I got the later “Blade Runner,” er, Philip K. Dick reference.

[chris_s]

@PotomacCyclist 130048 wrote:

WABA has a link to a MDOT-produced bike map for PGC but the link is dead: http://www.waba.org/resources/maps-and-documents/

I found it in the Way Back Machine…it doesn’t seem very useful to me.

The City of Takoma Park bike map on WABA’s site seems worth including though.

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